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Disability History at the National Council for the Social Studies - Boston

By Alice Levine

Many teachers share books and videos with their students about Civil Rights, especially near MLK’s birthday in January and during Black History Month in February or as part of units of study in ELA or Social Studies.

Since I grew up during a school desegregation struggle in New Jersey during the 1960’s, I began to wonder whether students are still learning about…

The Dublin series focuses…

Infusing Disability History into the Classroom by Rich Cairn & Graham Warder

Do you and your students know about the erased history of Jim Crow and Civil Rights Outside the South? 

News of the Field 

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. Now to make news more current and to ease production, items will appea…

In this insightful article, Newhouse explores practical approaches and resources to integrating disability history into teaching about:

She interviews teachers who have taught lessons from the Reform to…

Leah M. Bueso, University of Illinois Springfield, and Rich Cairn, Emerging America published a groundbreaking foundation and guide to organizing student-led civic engagement projects that are fully accessible to and inclusive of students with disabilities and all learners. The chapter entitled Developing the Civic Engagement of Students with Disabilities: Inclusive Civic Action Projects examin…

Guest post by Nancy Spannaus

It is common practice to present the American System of Economics as the invention of Kentucky politician Henry Clay, who served as a leading spokesman for that policy in the Federal government from 1806 to his death in 1852. But in his advocacy for the key components of the American System–Federal protection for manufactures,…