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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - May 2025

Published on Thu, 05/01/2025

A newspaper photograph shows dozens of members of the League of the Physically Handicapped in around a truck that they drove from New York to Washington to demand access to WPA jobs.

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

  • News of the Field
  • Disability History News & Resources
  • Events @ Emerging America 
  • Other Events
  • Teaching Resources 
  • New at the Library of Congress 

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - April 2025

Published on Tue, 04/01/2025

Inaccessible curb, mid-20th century. A wheelchair is rolled right up to the edge.

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

  • News of the Field
  • Disability History News & Resources
  • Events @ Emerging America 
  • Other Events
  • Teaching Resources 
  • New at the Library of Congress 

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - March 2025

Published on Sat, 03/01/2025

A diverse group of ADAPT activist surround a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. The activists are young and old, black and white, ambulatory and wheelchair users. The group is gathered around the base of the statue, most of them are sitting around it in a clump. Other activists in the background are at the entrance of a building, showing the lack of accessibility to wheelchair users via the building's steps.

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

  • News of the Field
  • Disability History News & Resources
  • Events @ Emerging America 
  • Other Events
  • Teaching Resources 
  • New at the Library of Congress 

 

March featured blog: "Completely Healthy Children:" The Persistence of Disabled Children and Their Allies During Aktion T4 and the Holocaust - by Wyatt Edwards

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - February 2025

Published on Sat, 02/01/2025

Eugenists would improve human stock by blotting out blood taints. Menaces to society. Images show adults with developmental disabilities and claims their "mental" ages range from 6 to 8. Text from the news article argues for examining couples prior to marriage and sterilizing those deemed "unfit".

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

  • News of the Field
  • Disability History News & Resources
  • Events @ Emerging America 
  • Other Events
  • Teaching Resources 
  • New at the Library of Congress 

 

February Featured Blog Post - Eugenics: Teaching Agency and the Roots of Genocide - including lesson from Reform to Equal Rights

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - January 2025

Published on Wed, 01/01/2025

Photos of civil rights leaders across the centuries. List at bottom of page.

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

  • News of the Field
  • Disability History News & Resources
  • Events @ Emerging America 
  • Other Professional Development Events
  • Teaching Resources 
  • New at the Library of Congress 

 

January Featured Blog Post - Primary Sources: Demonstrating the Power of the Community - "Whose Independence," a lesson by Cheryl-Anne Amendola

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - December 2024

Published on Mon, 12/02/2024

A diverse group of disability activists smile and pose. Five wear Teach Disability History sweatshirts. Two use wheelchairs. All wear conference badges.

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

  • News of the Field
  • Disability History News & Resources
  • Events @ Emerging America 
  • Other Professional Development Events
  • Teaching Resources 
  • New at the Library of Congress 

 

December Featured Blog Post: The Movement to Teach Disability History Comes Together - includes The Need Remains: 2024 Teacher Survey Results

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - November 2024

Published on Fri, 11/01/2024

We the Future Write Our Own Liberation - poster of Amanda Gorman a black woman wearing a bright dress with a flower and a pencil behind her ear and holding a book with The Tyrant Fears the Poet on the cover - three ferns make a background

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

November Featured Blog Posts:

  • News of the Field
  • Disability History News & Resources
  • Events @ Emerging America 
  • Other Professional Development Events
  • Teaching Resources 
  • New at the Library of Congress 

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - October 2024

Published on Wed, 10/02/2024

A lithograph of Camp Brightwood in Washington shows the entire 10th Massachusetts Regiment on parade. The unit's tents surround the field. In the corner sits the soldier-artist on a camp stool with a large pad in his lap.

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October Featured Blog Posts:

 

  • News of the Field 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - September 2024

Published on Fri, 08/30/2024

A stack of old photos and forms, including a marriage license, are spread across a table.

Emerging America History eNews is now: 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.

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