Emerging America builds teachers’ capacity to access and effectively use primary sources to engage students of all abilities.
Emerging America supports K-12 history educators and students – especially students with disabilities and multilingual learners – to develop skills of inquiry, exploration and interpretation of history, civics, social studies and the humanities through primary sources.
Emerging America is part of the Teaching Disability History program at Keene State College, funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant. In 2023, we published Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriclum with 300 primary sources.
Emerging America is a program of the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES).
Since 2006, Emerging America has offered resources and professional development to help teachers and students achieve high quality, inquiry-based education.
The name, “Emerging America,” reflects our approach to the study of history; like the nation itself, historical inquiry constantly evolves, ever growing, changing, and incorporating diverse perspectives and experiences.
Land Acknowledgement
The offices of the Collaborative for Educational Services in Northampton lie in Pocumtuc land, part of the Nipmuc Nation. Learn more about the Nipmuc Nation: https://www.nipmucnation.org/. Find the original peoples of your community using the Native Land interactive map and website.
Workshops, courses, and free online resources support programs for Accessibility, Civics, Teaching with Primary Sources, and more.
We partner with national and regional organizations, including the Library of Congress, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Westfield State University.
Emerging America staff and network of teacher coaches create free resources and provide professional development to schools and organizations across the U.S.