History eNews from Emerging America - January 19, 2023

EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 10, Issue 1 for January 19, 2023

IN THIS ISSUE

• Events @ Emerging America 
• News
• New at the Library of Congress
• Disability History Resources & Updates
• Other Professional Development Events
• Other Resources
• Blog post preview: “Tools for Digital Accessibility: Ensure that your digital education projects are fully accessible.”

 

Teaching in Today's Difficult Times

America & World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond 

March 3 - April 15 

Low Cost Workshops/Grad Courses

Text at the top of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Memorial reads: "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees -- Delores Ibarruri" and "...no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain. -- Ernest Hemingway. 

 

EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA - Info & Registration.

Mark your calendars for these Emerging America courses and workshops. Contact rcairn@collaborative.org or anoyes@collaborative.org.

HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION COURSES

PDPs / OR optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.  

Scholarships for Winter Courses - Registration fees of $50 and $100

Graduate Courses - Online

• NEW! Teaching the U.S. Disability Rights Movement

  • Free. Workshop of the Massachusetts Historical Society
  • Virtual - February 20, 22, & 24 - 9-11:30am ET - Part of the Disability and the American Past series.
  • Learn from teachers, historians, and disability rights activists. 
  • Earn PDPs or optional 1 grad credit (fee for credit). 
  • Disability Rights Workshop Registration. 

 

• Accessing Inquiry for English Learners through Primary Sources

  • March 3 - April 12, 2023 - Webinars March 8, 4:00-5:15 pm Eastern. Register for Accessing Inquiry for English Learners. Instructor: Alison Noyes, Emerging America. Focus on inquiry strategies to that work to support accessible social studies teaching, informed by recent pilot-tested methods developed by English Language Development experts working with social studies teachers on primary sources.
  • Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching students with disabilities.  
  • Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region mini-grant. 

 

• America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond – Teaching Human Rights Today

  • March 2 to April 15, 2023 - Webinars March 9, 16 & 30 and April 6 - 4:00-5:15pm Eastern - Register for America and World Fascism 
  • Instructors: Peter N. Carroll, Stanford, University and Sebastiaan Faber, Oberlin College, facilitated by Rich Cairn, Emerging America
  • Special fee of $50 thanks to the Puffin Foundation.  

 

• NEW DATES: Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources 

  • Moved from January - now running April 7 to May 17 - Register for Accessing Inquiry. Instructor: Rich Cairn, Emerging America. Sample the Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum, to be published by Emerging America in February, 2023.
  • Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching students with disabilities.  
  • Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region mini-grant. 

 

EMERGING AMERICA WEBINARS & CONFERENCES

Upcoming Presentations and Past Recordings from Emerging America

See complete list of short webinars, poster presentations, and more.

• Teach Disability History: We Can and We Must. An imperative for civics learning. 

  • March 8 - 7-8pm Eastern Time - National Civics Learning Week. Webinar. Launch of Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum.
  • Graham Warder, Keene State College; Desiree Forte, Easterseals Massachusetts - #TeachDisabilityHistory campaign; Ross Newton, HEC Academy; Katherine Stevens, Mass Humanities; & Rich Cairn, Emerging America. 
  • FREE. Register for webinar.

• Learning Disabilities Association of America annual conference - Las Vegas

  • February 21-23 - Register for the LDA conference. 
  • Disability History workshops - February 23. 

• National Council for History Education - Salt Lake City - March 23-25

  • Register for NCHE Conference. 
  • Emerging America workshop and poster sessions: 
    • Struggles for Freedom of Self-Determination: Engaging Every Learner through Disability History

NEWS

• Congress approved $23 million for Civics education in FY2023 (up from $7.75M). Follow efforts through the CivXNow Coalition of 260+ organizations.  
• Submit a proposal to present at the 2023 National Council for the Social Studies conference - December 1-3 - Nashville. 
• Mass Civics for All will host an event at the Statehouse during Civic Learning Week. 
• The National Council for the Social Studies released a Statement of Professional Ethics for the Social Studies Profession. 
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute is taking applications for National History Teacher of the Year. 
• Emerging America is again active on Twitter since we found no alternative yet to its reach. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook. Our January 8 tweet explains some of our concerns. 
• Next issue of History eNews is February 16. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by February 8. 

 

NEW AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

• Art for the Masses - Poster Collections of the Library of Congress - January/February 2023 Magazine. 
• Video - An Evening with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa. 

 

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):

• DISCUSSION: Podcasting: A Basic Guide
• DISCUSSION: Current Events - Speaker of the House Election 
• DISCUSSION: Using AI to improve audio quality of primary sources
• ALBUM: Blizzards, Farming and Making it through
• ALBUM: Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US FSA to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”

Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/

• Grab the Mic One Last Time - Jason Reynolds
• Searching Native American Newspapers in Chronicling America
• Silent Shakespeare
• A New Year’s Poem from the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission
• A Gift for the Holidays: A New Guide to Help Children Explore their Family History
• African Americans and the Formation of National Parks: The Story of Charles Young

 

DISABILITY HISTORY RESOURCES & UPDATES

• Disability and the American Past series - Massachusetts Historical Society - Join activists and top scholars from across the country. Online event. 
• February 8 - 6-7pm ET- Disappeared Disabilities  
• February 13 - 6-7pm ET - Failures in Intersectionality
• February 20, 22, & 24 - Teaching the U.S. Disability Rights Movement Registration
• February 28 - 6-7pm ET - Intro to Disability Justice 
• March 6 - 6-7pm ET - Disability Activism
• March 1 - noon - 1pm ET - Revolutionary: Judy Heumann on Disability Rights, Youth Activism & Storytelling as a Tool for Change - Facing History. Info on Heumann webinar. 
• #TeachDisabilityHistory Campaign & Game - primary source album. 
• Improving Outcomes for Native American Students With Disabilities While Respecting and Honoring Native Culture.
• The National Park Service seeks 2023 Fellows, including on Disability Representations at Historic Sites at FDR’s Hyde Park. Info on National Park Service fellowships. 
• What Inventions Were Made by Kids? Inventing at the Library of Congress! Louis Braille was just 15 when he developed a system of raised dots so that he and others who are blind could read books. Margaret Knight was 12 when she invented a safety cover for a loom when her friend was injured working in a mill.

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/louis-braille/exhibition-items.html. 

The Italian braille example above is from Helen Keller’s collection: Discorsi Sulla Cecita (Speeches on Blindness), by Aurelio Nicolodi.

OTHER EVENTS

Online unless noted. “Hybrid” events are both virtual and in-person.

• January 24 - 11am & 2pm ET - free virtual program for K-12 classrooms - Slavery at Mount Vernon. Info on Mount Vernon program. 
• February 1 - March 5 - Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Leadership Institute - Library of Congress & Waynesburg University. Info on TPS Institute.  
• February 7 - 3:30-4:45pm - Genocide Education in the Facing History Classroom. Info on Genocide education virtual forum. 
• February 16 - 7-8:30pm - Charting a Path to Teach Indigenous History - National Council for the Social Studies - National Humanities Center - Library of Congress. Info on indigenous history. 
• February 17 & February 22 - 11am & 2pm ET - free virtual program for K-12 classrooms - Washington’s Birthday. Info on birthday with Mount Vernon. 
• February 22 - 7:30pm - Native Nations and the U.S. Supreme Court - National Council for History Education. Info on the Native Nations webinar.  
• February 23 - 7pm - Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America - American Antiquarian Society. Info on Black Living webinar. 
• February 25, April 15, & May 6 - 11am-noon - webinars - Rural Lives in Context - National Council for History Education. Info on Rural Lives. 
• March 8 - 8:30pm - The Revolutionary Sam Adams - National Council for History Education. Info on Sam Adams webinar. 
• March 9 - 7pm - From Nonotuck to Northampton: Recovering Indigenous Histories - Historic Northampton. Info on Indigenous Histories webinar. 
• March 11 - 9am - 5pm - UMass Amherst - Transforming Education for Social Justice Conference. Info on Social Justice Conference. 
• June 2 and June 5 - Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education showcase civics projects. Info on Massachusetts civics showcase. 
• Save the date: June 16 - hybrid: online & on site, Deerfield, Massachusetts - Dublin Seminar - Indigenous Histories in New England: Pastkeepers and Pastkeeping. 

 

SUMMER 

• Library of Congress on site primary source workshops. 
• GeoCamps in Iceland and in the Amazon! Info from the National Council for Geographic Education. 
• (re)Centering the Narrative: Black Women’s Voices of the 19th and 20th Centuries - National Humanities Center - North Carolina. Info on Black Women’s Voices Institute. 
• NEH Summer Workshops - Stipends - On Site - Apply by March 3. 
• Preparing for America at 250: Women and the American Revolution - New York Historical Society. 

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OTHER RESOURCES

• Youth in Front: Understanding & Supporting Student-Led Activism - free, asynchronous online course - Learning for Justice. Info on Youth in Front course. 
• The Massachusetts Historical Society announces the History Source, online hub for K-12 teachers and classrooms. 
• Primary Source Learning & Map-Making with the Question Formulation Technique - classroom video - Right Question Institute. 
• Citizen U - primary source set - Martin Luther King Jr. 

 

NEW BLOG POST 

Tools for Digital Accessibility

By Rich Cairn

Today students and teachers increasingly rely on digital resources in and out of the classroom, a trend supercharged by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Access is a right for all. And everyone benefits when educators learn and use the ever-growing tools for digital access. 

This post points to invaluable resources to ensure that your digital education projects are fully accessible. 

Link to the full blog post. 

 

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