EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 11, Issue 7 for July 18, 2024
In this Issue
- Events @ Emerging America
- News
- New at the Library of Congress
- Professional Development Events
- Other Resources
- July Blog Post preview
New Publication: "Developing the Civic Engagement of Students with Disabilities: Inclusive Civic Action Projects"
July Blog Post
New from Information Age Publishing: Creating an Inclusive Social Studies Classroom for Exceptional Learners. Minarik & Lintner, editors. (2024)
Webinars and Conference Sessions from Emerging America
See complete list of Upcoming Presentations, Past Recordings and more.
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Emerging America and Partners at 2024 NCSS Conference - Boston
- Pre-conference presentation November 21 at the site of the Fernald State School.
- Emerging America and Easterseals Massachusetts: #TeachDisabilityHistory - How to integrate voices of people with disabilities into the curriculum.
- Emerging America and the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies: Scaffolding for Multilingual Learners on the Document Based Question Essay.
- Watch this page for details as they develop.
News
- Join the Teaching Disability History Interest Group - Next meeting is September 19. Email Rich Cairn rcairn@collaborative.org for information.
- Civic Engagement Challenge - student video competition - RetroReport & Civics Unplugged.
- The Department of Justice Mandates Updated Web Accessibility in Schools - K-12DIVE. (See “Tools for Digital Literacy” from Emerging America.)
- Black representation through game writing video from The TRiiBE - Level Up: Writers & Gamers in the news! - American Writers Museum.
- Sign up to participate in National History Day 2025.
- Mark your calendars: Civic Learning Week 2025 - March 10-14.
- Apply by September 23 to present at the National Council for History Education Conference in St. Louis - March 20-22, 2025.
- Students and teacher research project: tell stories of Korean War veterans - National History Day.
- There will be no August issue of the History enew. The next issue will be September 19. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by September 11.
New at the Library of Congress
What’s New?
- Library of Congress Magazine - July-August Issue: baseball cards, a compass pointing to Mecca, Saving the Sound, and more.
- African American Nurses and the Chi Eta Phi Sorority - new collection.
- Chronicling America continues to add American newspapers, including: Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847-1874; Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers; New York Journal, 1896-1899…
- National Book Festival - August 24.
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):
- The Forgotten Files - Your free archive of historical curiosities
- New York's First Black Librarians Changed the Way We Read
- Re-photography and Primary Sources.
- Album: The Rural Experience in America (Part B): Urban / Rural Tensions (1890-1940's)
- Album: In the Neighborhood: Everyday Life on Hastings Street.
- Album: The Black Guides of Mammoth Cave.
- Album: Cartoon Clues: Unraveling Niagara Falls' Hidden History.
Stereograph showing United States Sanitary Commission volunteers gathered by a covered wagon and a tent. (1861-1865). The War Photograph & Exhibition Company, Hartford. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/
See Emerging America's exhibit page on the United States Sanitary Commission.
Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/
- The Words of Independence
- A Look Back at a Year of Primary Source Learning
- “Canned Childhood”: Encouraging Student Understanding of Progressive Era Issues and Reform Strategies Through a Poem Related to Child Labor
- Rosa Parks’ Writing and Activism: “The Struggle Continues”
- Keeping Students Engaged with Primary Sources
Disability History Resources & Updates
- Why and How to Celebrate Disability Pride Month - The Arc.
- Gay Pride and people with disabilities - Crip News.
- San Francisco Disability Culture Center.
- Disability History, Justice & Culture News - June 2024 newsletter.
- Disability defined - presentation by Cameron Wells, CJAM Radio - Windsor, Ontario. PowerPoint slides. Accessible Diversity Course topics overview. Contact wellscameron@hotmail.com for information and permission to use.
- Humans Hunting Humans - The Murder of Albinos in Tanzania video from Inspired Risk.
- The State Of Disability: Employee Engagement - report from Global Disability inclusion.
- American Association of People with Disabilities Statement on Supreme Court Decision Involving Regulatory Power in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo.
- Disability Studies Quarterly - Spring Issue.
- Promo for Introduction to Disability Inclusive Curriculum - Disability Equality in Education.
- U.S. Department of Education: More States Failing To Meet Special Education Requirements - Disability Scoop.
Other Events
- August 20 - 9am-3:30pm - Free In-Person professional development on Facilitating Student-Led Civics Projects - Edward M. Kennedy Institute - Boston, MA - Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education. Register. Created by Harvard’s Project Zero, Emerging America, and iCivics. Info on the Civics Pathways.
- July 23-25 - Teaching Democracy and Freedom Summer Seminar - Facing History & Ourselves.
- July 24 - 7pm Eastern Time - Join a TPS Virtual House Party!
- July 24 - 1-3pm Eastern - If You Really Knew Me: Identity, Belonging & Multimedia Storytelling - PBS-NPR & Facing History & Ourselves.
- August 3-4 - Pocumtuck Homelands Festival - Turners Falls, Massachusetts - Nolumbeka Project.
- November 22-24 - Boston - National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference.
Other Resources
- Searching for Picture Books about Segregation and Civil Rights Struggles – Outside the South! by Alice Levine - Diverse Bookfinder.
- National History Day as a Framework for Place-Based Learning - Edutopia.
- AIDS: From Ryan White to Today’s Silent Epidemic - video and lesson from RetroReport.
- Raising Doubts About Evolution… in Science Class - video and lessons from RetroReport.
- Tales from the Slaughterhouse: How One Book Transformed Food Safety in America - The Forgotten Files.
- Causes of the American Revolution - Interactive Timeline - PBS Learning Media.
- Resources for Genocide Awareness & Education - San Francisco Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center.
- Children Discovering Justice: Grades K-5 curriculum - Discovering Justice.
Blog Preview: Developing the Civic Engagement of Students with Disabilities: Inclusive Civic Action Projects
July post by Rich Cairn
"Leah M. Bueso, University of Illinois Springfield, and Rich Cairn, Emerging America, published a groundbreaking foundation and guide to organizing student-led civic engagement projects that are fully accessible to and inclusive of students with disabilities and all learners. The chapter examines the research on civic engagement and students with disabilities and then lays out details for planning and carrying out truly inclusive projects to make a difference in the community and nation.
"The chapter appears in the latest powerful volume, Creating an Inclusive Social Studies Classroom for Exceptional Learners, by the leaders in inclusive social studies education Tim Lintner and Darren Minarik."
Continued…Link to the full Blog Post.
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