March 2026 Inclusive History eNews
In this Issue:
- News of the Field
- Disability History News & Resources
- Events @ Emerging America
- Other Events
- Teaching Resources
- New at the Library of Congress
Featured post this issue: Tools for Teaching the Disability Rights Movement: Classroom Friendly Video and Other Accessible Curriculum for Teaching the Disability Rights Movement
Featured Event: Teaching Disability and Human Rights: 2nd Annual Virtual Conference - April 7 - 5:00-7:30pm EST - Virtual conference information.
News of the Field
- Community Advisors needed for the 2026 Civics Project Showcases - View video of 2024 showcases - Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
- Grants for Civics Teaching & Learning and for Genocide Education - Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - due March 30.
- Nominate a History Teacher of the Year for your state by April 30 - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Disability History News & Resources
- How Activists Fought for Rights for People With Disabilities, and Made Them the Law - (12 minutes) - RetroReport.
- Long Road Home - video on creation of a memorial in Georgia for graves at the state hospital (25 minutes) - posted by Disability Thinking Weekday.
- Disability and the History of Astronomy - notice of group meetings March 3, April 7 & May 5 includes topical bibliography - Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
- Recording of talk: February 12 - 6pm Eastern Time - "Remembering Fernald: Uncovering the Hidden History of Disability in Massachusetts" - hybrid talk by Alex Green - Massachusetts Historical Society.
- February 17 - New Museum of Disability History Opens at The Viscardi Center - AbleNews. Viscardi RSVP.
- April 6-11 - Hybrid - 5th Annual Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale - In(Visibility): The Creation of Narratives and their Legacies.
- Join the U.S. International Council on Disabilities.
Events @ Emerging America
Learn more about current Emerging America professional development events.
How Can Educators Support Immigrant Students with Disabilities?
- March 10 - 4-5:30pm Eastern Time - How Can Educators Support Immigrant Students with Disabilities? - Immigrant Learning Center.
- Claudia Enaldi, Lasell University will speak about Ensuring True Access to Education for Multilingual Learners with Disabilities.
- Miguelina Suero, El Futuro will speak about Culturally Responsive Approaches for the Latino Community and students with ADHD.
- Rich Cairn of Emerging America will share core strategies to Make Instruction Accessible in Content-Rich History.
Photo by Immigrant Learning Center
Disability and Young Voters: Access, Legislation and Mobilizing Young Voters - A National Civic Learning Week Discussion
- March 11 - 7pm Eastern Time - Explore the state of voting by people with disabilities and by young voters. Discuss strategies and programs for your school to register students with disabilities to vote and to prepare all students to make a successful plan to vote. Register for the webinar.
- Lisa Schur, Co-Director, Program for Disability Research, Rutgers University
- Doug Kruse, Co-Director, Program for Disability Research, Rutgers University
- Ashleigh McKenna, Chief of Staff, New Voters
- Noorya Hayat, Senior Researcher, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), Tisch College, Tufts University
- Rich Cairn, Emerging America - Moderator
- Part of National Civic Learning Week.
National Council for History Education - Workshop
- Conference March 26-28 - Montgomery, Alabama. Info and registration.
- Saturday: “Tools for Guiding Student Research on Disability and Its Impacts” - Keene State College, and “Building Access to DBQs for Multilingual Learners" - Mass Council for the Social Studies.
Teaching Disability and Human Rights: 2nd Annual Virtual Conference - Information.
- April 7 - 5:00-7:00pm Eastern Time
- Keynote: Hezzy Smith, Harvard Law School
- Disability Legislation
- Student Research Projects on Disability History - Graham Warder
- Curriculum and Other Teaching Resources
- REGISTER.
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 March 19, 5:00-6:00pm Eastern Time. To join the group, email Rich Cairn - rcairn @ collaborative.org.
Other Events
In-person, unless noted. Hybrid = in-person and virtual options.
- March 9-13 - National Civic Learning Week - in-person and virtual events coast to coast. (See info above for Emerging America webinar on the vote on March 11.)
- March 13 - Sturbridge - Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies Conference.
- March 16 - 7-8:15pm Eastern Time - Webinar - "Echoes of the Holocaust: Strengthening Memory with Holocaust Literature" - Facing History and Ourselves.
- March 23 - 2pm Eastern Time - Virtual event - "Maybe Never Again: A Women's History Month Commemoration" - women in the Spanish Civil War - Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.
- March 26-28 - Montgomery, Alabama - Diasporas: Histories of Movement and Cultural Exchange - conference of the National Council for History Education.
- April 15 - 7:30-9pm Eastern Time - "Deepening Civic Learning through Community Connections" - Democratic Knowledge Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
- April 29 - 7-8pm Eastern Time - Webinar - "Standing Up to Bigotry and Hate: Tools for Young People in a Complex World" - Facing History and Ourselves.
- Three Journeys: Atlanta, New Orleans–and Morocco with Facing History.
- June 16-20 - Prairie View A&M University, Texas - Teaching African American Studies Summer Institute: Teaching the Digital Diaspora - National Humanities Center.
- July 27-30 - Three Branches Institute - Washington, DC - Free program for educators - apply by March 1 - White House Historical Association, Supreme Court Historical Society, and U.S. Capitol Historical Society.
Teaching Resources
- Gender Inequality - lesson from the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Civics Project Guidebook - powerful, accessible guide for student-led civics projects - Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
New at the Library of Congress
- Organizations that Promote Literacy Across the Globe: Announcing a Literacy Awards Webinar Series - April 8 to July 22.
- Sparking Student Curiosity with Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photographs.
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Image Credits
- Screen shot from How Activists Fought for Rights for People With Disabilities, and Made Them the Law - RetroReport.
- Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of the Secretary of the Interior guides three newly-arrived Japanese-Americans on a tour of the Ickes Farm near Olney, Maryland. Photo by Howard Hollem. (1943). Library of Congress.
