July-August 2026 Inclusive History eNews

In this Issue:

1. News of the Field
2. Disability History News & Resources
3. Events @ Emerging America 
4. Other Events
5. Teaching Resources 
6. New at the Library of Congress 

Featured post this issue: Teaching the Genocide and Survivance of Indigenous / Native Persons and People with Disabilities - announcing a new program of Emerging America and the Collaborative for Educational Services. 

Featured Event Conversation with Dagmar Herzog: Author of the Question of Unworthy Life. - Free September 15 webinar sponsored by the Disability History Association.

News of the Field

1. Apply by September 30 to present at the January 23, 2027 - SOURCES conference - University of Central Florida. SOURCES conference info. 
2. Volunteer virtually to transcribe Library of Congress primary sources through The American Revolution in Context and other By the People campaigns. Involve your students! 
3. Interest form: Teaching History with Chatty Geeps AI: A Technocurious Approach. 
4. Zinn Education Project 2026-2027 Fellows. 
5. Teaching with Primary Sources in the Elementary Classroom - any time virtual professional development. 

Disability History News & Resources

1. 
   July 29, 2026 - Film Screening: Life After - 5:45-9pm Eastern Time. Includes panel discussion from 8-9pm. Free. Instructions and tickets through Register for Life After at Eventbrite. 
2. Judi's Room - First Wednesday of the month @ 6 PM Eastern / 3 PM Pacific. Named for human rights activist Judi Chamberlin, this is a cross-disability dialogue space. Co-presented with MindFreedom International. Info on joining Judi’s Room. 
3. Devva's Room - Second Wednesday of the month, 7 PM Eastern / 4 PM Pacific. Named for Devva Kasnitz, a space that brings disability studies and history to everyone, not  just academics. Each evening includes learning, discussion, networking, and time to connect. Co-presented by I Love You-Lead On with Disability History and Culture Collective (DHACC). Register for Devva’s Room. 
4. Justin's Room - Third Wednesday of the month @ 7 PM Eastern / 4 PM Pacific. A storytelling space honoring Justin Dart's tradition of traveling the country to hear disabled people's stories. Features a lead storyteller. Co-presented with Disability History and Culture Collective (DHACC) and I Love You-Lead On Community. Register for Justin’s Room.
5. Federal Oversight of Special Education and Educational Civil Rights Must Remain Strong and Coordinated - Learning Disabilities Association of America. 
6. Apply by September 20 to present at the April 23-24 virtual conference of the Society for Disability Studies. 

Events @ Emerging America

Learn more about current Emerging America professional development events. 

Conversation with Dagmar Herzog: Author of the Question of Unworthy Life - book talk sponsored by the Disability History Association.

• September 15, 2026, 7-9pm Eastern Time. 
• Emerging America's Rich Cairn, board member of the Disability History Association will interview the author. 
• Register for the webinar. 

Teaching Disability History Interest Group

• Teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations meet quarterly to share resources and discuss how to advance the field. ASL and CART provided. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant. Next meeting is September 17, 5:00-6:00pm Eastern Time. To join the group, email Rich Cairn - rcairn @ collaborative.org. 

Recordings and Resources from Recent Emerging America Events: 

• 2nd Annual Teaching Disability History Conference - Tom Harkin Institute, Drake University - View presenter slides and materials from the July 14 conference. Featuring: Kim Nielsen, University of Toledo, Author: A Disability History of the United States; Sarah Handley-Cousins, University at Buffalo, Author: Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War in the North; Hope Bibens, Curator, Tom Harkin political papers. 

• Teaching Disability and Human Rights: 2nd Annual Virtual Teaching Disability History Conference - Find the recordings, transcript and extensive resource materials from April 7 conference. 

• Disability & Young Voters: Access, Legislation and Mobilizing Young Voters - A National Civic Learning Discussion.

Other Events

In-person, unless noted. Hybrid = in-person and virtual options. 

1. July 27 - 5:00-6:15 - webinar - Get a Mule, Forty Acres or So…: Teaching Reconstruction Through Land, Freedom, and Justice - Self-Evident Education. 
2. August 11 - 2pm - webinar - Geography and Map Virtual Orientation - Library of Congress. 
3. August 13 - 2pm - webinar - Overview of Public International Law - Law Library of Congress. 
4. August 20-22 - Boston - Free + $250 stipend - Teacher Workshop: Genealogy in the Classroom: Bringing History to Life with Family History - American Ancestors. 
5. August 22 - Washington, DC - National Book Festival. Library of Congress. 
6. December 4-6, 2026 - Chicago - National Council for the Social Studies 106th Annual Conference. NCSS conference info. [Join Emerging America, Keene State College and friends from the Teaching Disability History movement! - Editor] 
7. January 23, 2027 - SOURCES conference - University of Central Florida. SOURCES conference info. 
8. March 5-6, 2027 - Providence, Rhode Island - National Council for History Education conference. NCHE conference info. [Join Emerging America and friends! - Editor.]
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Teaching Resources

1. A People's Playlist: U.S. History with Music as a Primary Source - TeachRock. 
2. An Enlightened Idea: The Constitution Drew on Centuries-Old Principles - video and curriculum - RetroReport. 
3. Designing DBQs for All: A Practical Guide to Inclusive Historical Inquiry for Multilingual Learners - Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies. 
4. The Battle Over Marriage Equality - Archive of Public Broadcasting. 
5. Kemet: One Nation, Many Journeys - Public Service Announcement video - Music of US. 
6. Using Primary Sources in High School Language Arts Classes - Claflin University. 
7. The QFT [Question Formulation Technique] in the Age of Generative AI. 
8. Teaching Medieval History with primary sources - University of West Georgia. 
9. The Daughters of Billitis - podcast on lesbian activists in the 1950s - History Unerased. 
10. 45 Reading Like a Historian lessons - Digital Inquiry Group (formerly SHEG). 
11. Teaching Medieval History with Primary Sources - University of West Georgia. 
12. In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School - by Tom Weiner and Amilcar Shabbazz. 
13. Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music. 

New at the Library of Congress

1. 

   New Primary Source Set: Newspaper Journalism. 
2. Online exhibition: The Declaration's Project: A Revolutionary Idea. 
3. Get to Know the 2025 Literacy Awards Honorees. 
4. How News of the Declaration of Independence First Spread. 
5. Applying Students’ Historical Thinking Skills to Oral Histories as “A New Way of Writing.”
6. Mapping Malaria: Exploring Patterns and Public Health Solutions with Primary Sources. 
7. The National Women’s Trade Union League: Analyzing Emblems and Handbooks from the Progressive Era. 

Image Credits

1. Demonstrator in a wheelchair wearing a yellow star with a wheelchair symbol inside at the first nationwide West German disability rights demonstration in Frankfurt am Main, 1980. Demonstrators also carried a banner declaring: “Don’t pity the disabled person; pity the society that rejects him.” Photo © 1980, 2020 by Walter H. Pehle. Courtesy Dagmar Herzog. 
2. "Newspaper article, “Miss Ida B. Wells (Iola) has been called the ‘Princess of the Press . . .’” 1889. Image 5 of The journalist (New York), January 26, 1889. Chronicling America. Library of Congress. 

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