Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

October Featured Blog Posts:

• Infusing Disability History into the Classroom by Rich Cairn & Graham Warder

• Do you and your students know about the erased history of Jim Crow and Civil Rights Outside the South? 

• News of the Field 

• Disability History News & Resources
• Events @ Emerging America 
• Other Professional Development Events
• New Teaching Resources 
• New at the Library of Congress 

News of the Field

• Join the Teaching Disability History Interest Group. Teachers, researchers, historians and advocates meet virtually quarterly to share ideas, experiences, resources, and research at many levels and to build a community of practitioners nationwide. Email rcairn@collaborative.org for meeting info. 
• The American Historical Association published the landmark report: American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools, on curriculum mandates and classroom practices in U.S. public schools. Download the report free. 
• Do you teach the history of rivers? In your community or more generally? Read the River History Education Memo by researcher and educator Scot McFarlane and join the discussion of how to integrate this facet of environmental history into history class. 
• CivxNow 2024 Education State Policy Scan - Interactive Map. Summary points include: 35 states require a civics course. 29 states require a civics assessment. 
• 2025 Civic Learning Week will be March 10-14. 
• See the full Camp Brightwood drawing (from right) and a biography of the remarkable soldier John Donovan as part of our online exhibit: How Civil War Veterans Transformed Disability. 

Disability History News & Resources

• Renegades - Short videos on the lives and cultural contributions of little-known historical figures with disabilities - American Masters - PBS. 

• October 17-20 - 2024 Superfest Virtual Film Festival - San Francisco Disability Cultural Center & Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability. 
• Mark your calendar - online and New Haven, Connecticut - 4th Annual Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale, 2025 - workshops April 10 on accessible teaching. 
• What Could Go Right? A Century of Facial Repair - Emma Varvaloucas - The Progress Network. See also the surgical photographs in the Library of Congress collection of Civil War photographs.  
• Boston Center for Independent Living marks 50 years of helping disabled people live on their own - GBH All Things Considered. 
• Disability History, Justice & Culture News - September Newsletter.
• 40.2 million eligible U.S. voters are disabled. 7.1 million in 7 contested states. Who do disabled voters support and why? What are the campaigns doing to reach them? New research from Rutgers. AP story. 

Events @ Emerging America

Info on Emerging America professional development events: upcoming presentations, past recordings and more.

• October 21 - 8am-3:30pm at The Vogel in Red Bank New Jersey. - Making History Visible: Creative and Dynamic Learning with LGBTQAI+ and Disabilities Histories - Register.
  • Full-day professional workshop sponsored by: NJEA Consortium, Count Basie Center for the Arts, Make it Better for Youth, Emerging America and others.  

• November 16 - CES - Northampton, Massachusetts Teaching about Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement Outside the South - POSTPONED

  • Alice Levine (See her blog post on children's books.) - Explore how we can bring stories about segregation and civil rights struggles that occurred in the North, West and Midwest into our teaching.  We will share examples and discuss ideas while browsing books and materials for use with students this school year. Also see the new Emerging America blog post by Alice Levine.  

• Monthly - starting November 21 - 3:30-5:00pm Eastern - online CES Social Studies PLC - Register. 

  • Facilitated by veteran teacher-leader Peter Vamosy. Optional PDPs. 

• November 22-24 - Boston - 2024 Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies - Watch our NCSS page for details. 

  • Emerging America and Easterseals Massachusetts: #TeachDisabilityHistory - How to integrate voices of people with disabilities into the curriculum. 
  • Emerging America and Mass Council for the Social Studies: Scaffolding for Multilingual Learners on the Document Based Question Essay. 

Other Professional Development Events

Free, flexible civics professional learning from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education Civics Pathways. Created by Harvard's Project Zero in collaboration with iCivics and Emerging America. Self-Guided Online Modules open November 12: conducting research, connecting with stakeholders and decision-makers, and reaching a wider audience. Info and registration. (Now open to teachers from any state; small registration fee from outside Massachusetts.) 

• October 9 - 6pm - hybrid - Striving for Restorative Justice and Repair - Timothy K. Eatman, Tanisha Arena, and Rose Webster-Smith - UMass Amherst Feinberg Lecture Series. 
• October 17 - 7pm - Webinar - Shaping the Nation: Exploring Voting Processes and Rights, Elections, and Civic Responsibilities - National Council for the Social Studies. 
• October 17 - Punished for Dreaming: School Reform and Healing - Oklahoma Oral History Research Project. 
• October 21-25 - National U.S. Media Literacy Week - National Association for Media Literacy Education. 
• October 22 6pm - virtual panel - The Attack on Honest History - UMass Amherst 2024-2025 Feinberg Series.
• October 29 - 4:00-5:30pm - virtual: Dually Identified: How to Support Immigrant Students with Disabilities - Immigrant Learning Center. 
• November 22-24 - Boston - National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference. 
• January 18, 2025 - Orlando, Florida - SOURCES Annual Conference on teaching with primary sources - University of Central Florida. 

New Teaching Resources

• iCivics released a Civic Virtue Collection for K-2 Classrooms - Private i History Detectives. 
• Resources to Support Educators Around the 2024 Election and Beyond - Massachusetts Civic Learning Coalition. 
• Civic Digital Literacy - iCivics. 
• Civic Learning Institute online courses - Harvard. 
• Folk Sources and New Narratives in Oklahoma - featuring materials on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Local Learning. 
• Film: Coexist: Rwanda’s social experiment in government-mandated reconciliation through the eyes of victims, perpetrators, and those who bore witness to the 1994 genocide - Upstander Project. 
• Professional Development Video Collections - United States Holocaust Museum. 
• Latinx Heritage Month - California History and Social Science Project. 

New at the Library of Congress

• New Teaching with Primary Sources Grantees - 2024-2027
• Informational Text: A New Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. 

About Emerging America's Inclusive History News

Committed to Access and Inclusion of All Learners in Civics, History and Social Studies 

Created in response to teacher requests in 2013, the History eNews emailed monthly short descriptions and links of quality history and social studies events and resources. Since September, 2024 items now appear in an Emerging America blog page from the first of each month, with a monthly Constant Contact email notice to our 3,000+ subscribers. Sign up free at the bottom of the page. 

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