Emerging America's Inclusive History News - November 2025

In this Issue:

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

Featured November Teaching Resource: New Topical Student Research Guides on Disability History from Emerging America and Keene State College. 

News of the Field

• Empowering Teacher Educators with Primary Sources: Bridging the Gap in Understanding and Teaching Rural School Desegregation - For professionals at cultural institutions such as museums, archives and historic sites, in rural communities. Stipends. Apply by December 5. Old Dominion University. 
• PLC on Teaching Local History led by veteran history teacher, Brian Sheehy based on Democracy in Dialogue Virtual Exchange Program. Sign up and info on the PLC. 
• Grant proposals for the Massachusetts Investigating History curriculum - Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education - letter of intent due December 10. 
• Grant proposals for Harvard's Democratic Knowledge Project curriculum - apply by January 29. 
• Learning Disabilities Association of America seeks new executive director. Cindy Cipoletti will step down in February. 

Disability History News & Resources

Disability History Month Resources: 

• 

  Rest In Peace: Disability Justice leader Alice Wong, 1974-2025. Browse her Disability Visibility Project, originally created as a StoryCorps series. 
• November 12, 7pm Eastern Time - “Building Disability Culture on College Campuses” Elaine Gerber - Devva's Room. 
• November 19, 4-5:30pm Eastern Time - Historical Society of Cheshire County, New Hampshire - How to Teach Disability History: Curriculum, Strategies, and Resources - Keene State College. 
• November 25 - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Disability Inclusion’s Role in U.S. Foreign Policy - Harvard Law School Project on Disability.
• December 10 - Simi Linton and Riva Lehrer Disability Depiction in Art - Devva's Room. 
• A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled by Alex Green. Bellevue Literary Press. (2025). 
• Deafhood: Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture. 

Events @ Emerging America

Info on Emerging America professional development events: upcoming presentations, past recordings and more.  

National Council for the Social Studies Conference Workshop

• December 5-7, 2025 - Washington, DC - NCSS Annual Conference - National Council for the Social Studies. 
  • "National History Day, Teaching with Primary Sources, and You" - Saturday, 12/6/25 - 4:00-4:55pm - Walter E. Washington Convention Center: Rm. 143B. 

Teaching Disability History Interest Group

• Teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations meet quarterly to share resources and discuss how to advance the field. ASL and CART provided. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant. Next meeting is December 19, 5:00-6:00pm Eastern Time. To join the group, email Rich Cairn - rcairn @ collaborative.org. 

Materials from Teaching Disability History Conference

• Teachers, historians, disability advocates and teacher-educators from California to New Hampshire gathered July 8 at Keene State College to discuss and share how to advance the Teaching of Disability History. Find a wealth of presentation slides, articles, teaching materials and primary sources on the conference website. 

Recordings, transcript, slides & resources from the April 15 virtual Teaching Disability History Conference

• Teaching Disability History VIRTUAL Conference page. 
• Free conference for teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant. 

Other Events

In-person, unless noted. Hybrid = in-person and virtual options. 

• November 12, 6:30 - hybrid - Archaeology of the American Revolution - American Revolution Institute. 
• November 13, 2025, 6-7pm Eastern Time - webinar - Building Access to Document-Based Questions for Multilingual Learners - Immigrant Learning Center & Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies.
• December 5-7, 2025 - Washington, DC - NCSS Annual Conference - National Council for the Social Studies. 
  • "National History Day, Teaching with Primary Sources, and You" - Saturday, 12/6/25 - 4:00-4:55pm - Walter E. Washington Convention Center: Rm. 143B. 
• December 9, 6:30-7:30pm Eastern Time - hybrid - The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America’s War of Liberation in Canada, 1774-1776 - American Revolution Institute. 
• December 12, 2025 - 10am - 4pm - Hudson High School - Trauma-Informed Financial Education: Creating Safe Spaces for Learning - $100 stipend - Kiel Maurath - Muhammad Burhan. 
• January 24, 2026 - Orlando - Sources Conference - apply to present - University of Central Florida. 
• February 16-18 - St. Louis - Learning Disabilities Association of America conference. 
• March 13 - Sturbridge - Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies Conference. 
• March 26-28 - Montgomery, Alabama - Diasporas: Histories of Movement and Cultural Exchange - conference of the National Council for History Education. 
• Three Journeys: Atlanta, New Orleans–and Morocco with Facing History. 

Teaching Resources

• Teaching about Veterans Day - Resources from the Zinn Education Project. 
• Video: "Habeas Corpus and the Limits of Presidential Power: The Right to a Day in Court." Includes teaching materials. RetroReport. 
• Civic Education Curriculum Collection - teaching materials from Facing History and Ourselves. 
• '“Collaboration is the heart of It”: The value of community-building in the Washington Prison History Project' - National Council on Public History. 

New at the Library of Congress

• Library of Congress Names Arthur Sze the Nation's 25th U.S. Poet Laureate. 
• Due to the temporary shutdown of the federal government, inquiries and requests to the Library of Congress web-based services will not be received or responded to until the shutdown ends. 

About Emerging America's Inclusive History News

Committed to Access and Inclusion of All Learners in Civics, History and Social Studies 

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Image Credits

• Mental Hospital, 1953. Film by the University of Oklahoma. Library of Congress. 
• Alice Wong. Photo by Eddie Hernandez Photography. Disability Visibility Project. 
• Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, 2025. Library of Congress.