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History eNews from Emerging America - February 15, 2024

Published on Thu, 02/15/2024

Emerging America logo against vista of sky, river, distant mountains.

EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 11, Issue 2 for February 15, 2024

In this Issue

  • Events @ Emerging America 
  • News
  • New at the Library of Congress
  • Disability History Resources & Updates
  • Other Professional Development Events
  • Other Resources
  • Blog post preview: Teach Disability History Using Court Cases.

 

Teach Disability History Using Court Cases

February Blog Post

The American Bar Association and Emerging America’s Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum offer classroom resources to use landmark Supreme Court cases on disability in the classroom. 

Woman with short Afro touches her framed artwork held by the president, who wears a suit. A second woman holds the artist's arm while looking at the picture.

President Barack Obama and artist Lois Curtis look at one of her paintings. Official White House Photo, Pete Souza. (2011). https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/06/22/olmstead-champion-meets-president 

 

Courses & Workshops at Emerging America - Info & Registration.

Syllabi available at link above. Questions? Contact rcairn@collaborative.org or anoyes@collaborative.org.

PDPs / or optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.  

 

Webinars and Conference Sessions from Emerging America 

See complete list of Upcoming Presentations, Past Recordings  and more.

 

"History at the Crossroads" logo for NCHE 2024 conference

 

  • Emerging America at the National Council for History Education 

    • March 7-9, 2024 - Cleveland - Register
    • Breakout session: 
      • Teaching Stories of Disability History: Teachers, Veterans, and Citizens - Rich Cairn, Emerging America
    • Posters: 
      • Reform to Equal Rights: Integrate Disability History into History Class - 1776-2024 - Rich Cairn, Emerging America
      • Challenging Primary Sources and Inclusive Teaching: Lessons from Dialogue between History and ESL Teachers - Alison Noyes, Emerging America and Kristen Tabacco, board member, Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies

 

  • Empowerment through Disability History - Hosted by the Learning Disabilities Association of America.

    • April 9, 2024 - 5-6pm Eastern Time - Free - Register
      • Ross Newton, high school history teacher in Special Education, and Rich Cairn, author of Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum. 
      • Disability from after the American Revolution through the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and its impacts. Discuss why and how disability history can be integrated into school classrooms. 
    • For Special Education teachers and interested parents and advocates. 

 

News

 

New at the Library of Congress

In front of shelves of labeled bottles and a lab bench with flasks, a young woman extracts something with tongs.
Image description: In front of shelves of labeled bottles and a lab bench with flasks, a young woman uses tongs over a glass vacuum container.

Miss Margaret D. Foster, Uncle Sam's only woman chemist. (c1919). Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.00520/. From Free to Use and Reuse: Scientists & Inventors.

 

What’s New?

 

TPS Teachers Network 

Teachers with interest in working with primary sources are welcome to join this network. Featured this issue - (log in to see Discussions; no log-in needed for Albums):

 

Library of Congress Teacher Blog

http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/

  • Provident Hospital’s Prominent Physicians
  • Using the Veterans History Project for Holocaust Education
  • Inventions and Innovations: Thomas Edison and Learning through Failure
  • Looking for Leaders Behind the Scenes: Bayard Rustin and his Role in African American History
  • Exploring Heritage and Culture Using Library of Congress Collections

 

Disability History Resources & Updates

Disability Equality in Education logo of rainbow emerging from a smiling head silhouette, text "Eradicating disability stigma in education"
Image description: Disability Equality in Education logo of rainbow emerging from the brain in a smiling head silhouette, text "Eradicating disability stigma in education"

 

 

Other Events

Online unless noted. “Hybrid” events are both virtual and in-person.

 

Summer 2024 - All are in-person

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Black Americans peacefully walk in the center of the street with protest signs demanding freedom, equality, integrated schools, the women in summer dresses with handbags.
Image description: Black Americans peacefully walk in the center of the street with protest signs demanding freedom, equality, integrated schools, the women in summer dresses with handbags.

March on Washington. Warren K. Leffler, photographer. (1963). Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003654393/. 

 

Other Resources

 

Blog Preview: Teach Disability History Using Court Cases

By Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, HEC Academy

Many teachers teach students to read and analyze famous court cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona. Landmark cases of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) are compelling because they draw students into tangible arguments and details of major turning points in history. Now, thanks to the American Bar Association (ABA) and Reform to Equal Rights, civics and history students can add major cases on disability to the menu of possible investigations. 

Continued… 

Link to the full blog post.

 

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Rich Cairn

Civics and Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction Specialist, Collaborative for Educational Services
Rich Cairn founded Emerging America in 2006, which features the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program at the Collaborative for Educational Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History program, "Forge of Innovation: The Springfield Armory and the Genesis of American Industry." The Accessing Inquiry clearinghouse, supported by the Library of Congress TPS program promotes full inclusion of students with disabilities and English Learners in civics and social studies education.