Published on Wed, 08/21/2024
In this insightful article, Newhouse explores practical approaches and resources to integrating disability history into teaching about:
Published on Tue, 05/21/2024
Guest post by Max Chervin Bridge
Published on Thu, 01/25/2024
Post by Rich Cairn and Ross Newton
"Court cases are great for teaching history because they often deal with concrete details from everyday life."
- Ross Newton, High School History teacher, HEC Academy.
Although this series of lessons utilizes sources from the Civil Rights Movement, the topic of focus could be changed to better support student needs or to better align to your topics of study.
Throughout these lessons, multilingual learners will develop the language necessary for success in the content area of social studies.
Published on Tue, 10/17/2023
Visit the new online exhibit: How Civil War Veterans Transformed Disability.
Published on Tue, 09/05/2023
At the end of the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years, Emerging America widely promoted an online survey of teachers to discover how much they teach disability history. Though the response has been small, the results offer intriguing insights.
Published on Tue, 08/01/2023
Published on Wed, 04/12/2023
When the Founding generation talked about the pursuit of happiness they had specific ideas in mind– a tranquility or contentment–the ability to look back on one’s life and feel satisfied with one’s decisions and behavior. To that generation, living a virtuous life was key to human happiness.
Kelley Brown, The Pursuit of Happiness:
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