EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 3 for January 29, 2020

 

NEWS

• Download 2019 Mass DESE Civics Project Guidebook PDF with working hyperlinks from updated EmergingAmerica.org Civics Civics page.  
• High School Voter Challenge! Plan now to register eligible high school students prior to the March 3 Presidential Primary! 
• Teaching Tolerance - Future Voters Project
• Apply for Massachusetts Historical Society Summer 2020 Teacher Fellowship! Dive into MHS archives to find primary sources for your classroom. Apply by Feb 18th. http://www.masshist.org/teaching-history/fellowships
• NCSS 100th Annual Conference (Washington, D.C.) - Call for Proposals - Due February 10
• Springfield Armory National Historic Site to be temporarily closed to visitors February 3-March 31 for historic systems updates
• Library of Congress: Jason Reynolds is Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature 
• James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation: Graduate Fellowships (Deadline March 1)

 

 

It's your America! 

Enroll in Accessing Civic Engagement with Students with Disabilities - April 13. 

It's Your America! Help the ten-year roll call--1940 CENSUS, U.S.A. https://www.loc.gov/item/92503698/

 

Access an excellent slide show on the Census from Library of Congress TPS Consortium member Dr. Elizabeth Osborn, Indiana University Center on Representative Government!  eosborn@iu.edu Find it and other sources in Emerging America Teaching Resources

 

 

EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA - Info & Registration.

Contact rcairn@collaborative.org.

 

HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION COURSES

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

• Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources - Instructors: Rich Cairn & Alison Noyes. Meets state PD requirement, with attention to teachers of History and Social Science and the Humanities. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
  • March 3 & March 31 - CES, Northampton 
  • July 6-31 - ONLINE
• Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources - Instructors Rich Cairn & Alison Noyes. Meets state PD requirement, with attention to teachers of History and Social Science and the Humanities. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
  • FULL February 4 to March 16 - Fully ONLINE. 
  • March 27 & April 15 - Hudson 
• History’s Mysteries - K-5 Curriculum Pilot - Instructors: Kelley Brown & Laurie Risler. PDPs or 1 graduate credit. 
  • NEARLY FULL February 26 to May 31. Online. Teach it in your classroom this spring.
• America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond - Instructor: Kelley Brown. Scholars Peter Carroll and Sebastiaan Faber. PDPs or 1 graduate credit.
  • April 3-4 - Melrose High School
• Accessing Civic Engagement with Students with Disabilities - Instructors: Rich Cairn & Alison Noyes. 10 PDPs. 
  • April 13 - Hudson - $40

 

NEW RESOURCES AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

• TPS Teachers Network - Teachers with experience working with primary sources are welcome to join this network. 

 

Featured this week - YOU MUST LOGIN FIRST FOR THESE LINKS TO WORK:

• Check out the many great resources posted in the TPS Teachers Network Civics Education and Civic Engagement group! 
• Teaching and Responding to Antisemitism in 2020
• Health Care - Provident Hospital
• A Language With Chutzpah: Yiddish and American Culture
• Black Codes to Black Lives Matter
• Beyond MLK?
• Chicago in the 30’s

Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/

• Teaching Civic Ideals Using Primary Sources: Federalism and the Origin of Federal Air Pollution Policy

• Welcome Jason Reynolds, 2020-2021 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature!

•  What’s New Online? Explore Recently Digitized Collections from the Library of Congress

• Explore the Frederick Douglass Digital Newspaper Collection from the Library of Congress

• Teaching Civic Ideals Using Primary Sources: The Origin and Evolution of the Bill of Rights

• Applications Available for 2020 Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute

 

OTHER EVENTS: 

• Ford’s Theater -
  • Exploring Lincoln in Washington 
    • February 6 - 11am and 1 pm 
  • The Stages of Lincoln’s Legacy 
    • February 18, 1:10pm (Webinar)
    • February 27, 11:10am (Webinar)
    • February 27, 1:10pm (Webinar)
• ASOST-sponsored 2 Day Service-Learning Trainings - 8:30am-3:30pm - Registration 
  • February 4-5: Hadley Farms Meeting House, Hadley, MA
  • March 18-19: Hilton Garden Inn Plymouth, MA
  • May 6-7: Tower HIll Botanical Gardens, W. Boylston, MA
  • June 2-3: Hilton Garden Inn, Devens, MA
• January 29 - 7-8pm (Webinar) - The Bill of Rights Institute: Reconstruction and Narrative: Amendments and Their Limitations - Information and Registration 
• February 12 - 3-4pm - The Immigrant Learning Center: Educator Webinar - Understanding Immigration Today - Information and Registration 
• February 19 - 7-8pm (Webinar) - Five College Consortium: Democracy in Taiwan - Registration 
• March 13 - 6-7:30pm (Webinar) - JFK Presidential Library and Museum: Climate Change, Survival, and Deepening Our Humanity - Information and Registration 
• March 17 - 8am-3pm - Bill of Rights Institute: President and the Constitution: Presidential Powers - Information and Registration 
• March 25 - 8:30am-3:15pm - JFK Presidential Museum and Library: Dignity and Justice for All: Stories of Protest, Resistance, and Change - A Conference for Teachers of Grades 3-8 and School Librarians - Information and Registration 
• June 1 - 8:30am-5:00pm - Mass History Alliance: History: a Massachusetts Community

 

SUMMER:

• Norman B. Leventhal Map Center (Boston Public Library) - 2020 NEH Landmarks of AMerican History and Culture Workshop: Mapping a New World: Places of Colonization and Conflict in 17th-Century New England - Deadline to Apply: March 10 - Information
  • July 6-10
  • July 20-24
• American Bar Association - Summer Institutes - June 21-26 - Information and Applications 
• TPS - Mars Hill University: Summer Institutes (In the lovely mountains of western North Carolina! - Rich) 
  • Primary Sources and Performance - July 6 -10 
  • Cherokee History and Culture - July 20-24 
• Center for Civic Education - Summer Institute - July 11-25 - Baltimore Information and Application 
• Project Citizen Summer Research Programs - Contact for State Program Coordinators 

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RESOURCES:

• Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum - New Experience “Looking Back. Thinking Forward”
• Facing History and Ourselves - Black History Month Resources: Eyes on the Prize

 

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