We are proud to share this excellent overview summary of disability history!
Lynne O'Hara from National History Day (NHD) approached Emerging America in su…
Date: Jun 11 2025
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The Struggle for Disability Rights: From Objects of Reform to Advocates for Equality
Published in the National History Day 2026 Theme Book - June, 2025
Overview article on disability history for teachers and secondary students.
Date: May 31 2025
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Date: May 1 2025
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Date: Apr 1 2025
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April featured lesson: Disabled veterans advocated for access to legal services and won the first curb cut in Kalamazoo in 1945. How can this story spark student curiosity about their community a…
Date: Mar 6 2025
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“Completely Healthy Children” - The Persistence of Disabled Children and Their Allies During Aktion T4 and the Holocaust
By Wyatt Edwards
In Mikaël Ross’s graphic novel The Thud, the main character Noel, who has a developmental disability and has just arrived at a care facility in Germany, learns from an older woman named Irma about how her brother once told her the story of how the buses cam…
Date: Mar 1 2025
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March featured blog: "Completely Healthy Children:" The Persistence of Disabled Children and Their Allies During Aktion T4 and the Holocaust - by Wyatt Edwards
Date: Feb 2 2025
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The Dehumanizing Effects of Eugenics: Disability History Lesson Plan
By Rich Cairn
The engravings on the right of two young women are haunting. Aside from the clothing, these faces could easily be high school or college students today. Yet these images appeared in the New York Tribune in 1912 under the headline, “Eugenists Would Improve Human Stock by Blotting Out Blood Taints,” with the sub…
Date: Feb 1 2025
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February Featured Blog Post - Eugenics: Teaching Agency and the Roots of Genocide - including lesson from Reform to Equal Rights
Date: Jan 1 2025
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January Featured Blog Post - Primary Sources: Demonstrating the Power of the Community - "Whose Independence," a lesson by Cheryl-Anne Amendola
Date: Dec 16 2024
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Teaching About the Disabled People’s Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence
By CherylAnne Amendola
"Whose Independence?" 5th grade lesson features reflections of the U.S. Declaration, including the 1989 Disabled People's Bill of Rights & Declaration of Independence - Cheryl Anne Amendola - National Middle Level Social Studies Teacher of the Year 2023. Link to slides from the lesso…