Emerging America's Inclusive History News - October 2025

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 October Blog Post: Supporting Teachers to Teach Disability History with Confidence: Lessons from New Jersey by Nicole Hansen, Christa S. Bialka and Teresa G. Wojcik. 

News of the Field

• History, Social Science and Civics at DESE (Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education) - curriculum, civic project resources, and genocide education resources. 
• Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies - What in store. What's in it for you. 

Disability History News & Resources

Disability History Month Resources: 

• Seattle Public Schools Disability History Awareness Resources
• National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) - U.S. Department of Labor 

Disability History Association 2025 Book Award Winners:

• Outstanding Book Award: The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century - Dagmar Herzog. 
• Book Award Honorable Mention: In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life - Regina Kunzel. 
• Outstanding Article or Book Chapter: "Creating a User-Inventor Community: How Disabled People Innovated and Marketed Disability in Early Nineteenth-Century America" - Laurel Daen. 
• Article or Book Chapter Honorable Mention: “Under the Southern Cross: Hellen Keller, Disability Politics and Apartheid South Africa” - Lara Kriegel and Alex Lichtenstein. 

Other Disability History Resources

Events @ Emerging America

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

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 December 19, 5:00-6:00pm Eastern Time. To join the group, email Rich Cairn - rcairn @ collaborative.org. 

Materials from Teaching Disability History Conference

• Teachers, historians, disability advocates and teacher-educators from California to New Hampshire gathered July 8 at Keene State College to discuss and share how to advance the Teaching of Disability History. Find a wealth of presentation slides, articles, teaching materials and primary sources on the conference website. 

Recordings, transcript, slides & resources from the April 15 virtual Teaching Disability History Conference

• Teaching Disability History VIRTUAL Conference page. 
• Free conference for teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant. 

Other Events

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

• October 5, 2025 - 2pm Eastern Time - book break webinar - An Introduction to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States - John Meacham - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 
• October 9, 2025 - 7pm Eastern Time - webinar - Censorship in Social Studies Education: Stories from Teachers Who Are Fighting Back - National Council for the Social Studies (members event). 
• October 23, 2025 - 4:30pm Eastern Time - webinar - Essential Domains of High-Quality Social Studies Resources - National Council for the Social Studies and InquirEd. 
• October 28, 2025 - Boston - Teaching U.S. History with Facing History. 
• December 5-7, 2025 - Washington, DC - NCSS Annual Conference - National Council for the Social Studies. 
• January 24, 2026 - Orlando - Sources Conference - apply to present - University of Central Florida. 
• March 26-28 - Montgomery, Alabama - Diasporas: Histories of Movement and Cultural Exchange - conference of the National Council for History Education. 
• Three Journeys: Atlanta, New Orleans–and Morocco with Facing History. 

Teaching Resources

• Vaccine Skepticism Is Reviving Preventable Diseases - RetroReport. 
• We Can Teach Hard Things – And We Should - iCivics. 
• How Did Opposition to Laws Fuel the American Revolutionary War? - Grade 3 lessons - Private i History Detectives - iCivics. 
• 4 ways to bring Hispanic Heritage Month into the Arizona history classroom - Arizona PBS. 
• National Center for Civil and Human Rights Learning Portal. 

New at the Library of Congress

• Declaring War on Japan in 1941: Challenging Students to Explore Multiple Perspectives on a Presidential Speech to Congress
• Announcing “American Stories: A Reading Road Trip” 
• Resources for Rural and Small Libraries
• Community: People and Places - A New Primary Source Set for Educators

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 appear in an Emerging America blog page from the first of each month, with a monthly Constant Contact email notice to our 2,300+ subscribers. Sign up free at the bottom of the page. 

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Image Credits

• Remembering Ethan Ellis (1933-2019) - Alliance Center for Independence. 
• Geipp, Gallaudet (1920) - Library of Congress. 
• Mural, Mission District, San Francisco. Photo by Carol Highsmith. 2009. Library of Congress.