In this Issue:
- News of the Field
- Disability History News & Resources
- Events @ Emerging America
- Other Events
- Teaching Resources
- New at the Library of Congress
June featured resource: Confronting a President: Douglass and Lincoln.
News of the Field
- The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education History/Social Science Team is hiring.
- Genocide Education in Massachusetts - Report.
- October 20 - Rutgers - New Jersey Council for the Social Studies Conference. Apply by June 15 to present.
- Civic Learning in Elementary School/Early Education - report from the Center for Educational Equity.
- The next issue of the Emerging America's History eNews will appear in September.
Disability History News & Resources
- July is Disability Pride Month 2025 - “We Belong Here, and We’re Here to Stay” - The ARC.
- Deaf President Now! documentary — Trailer | Apple TV+.
- Now through June 16, 2025 - Embracing Possibility: Georgia's Disability Justice Journey - Tubman African American Museum, Macon, Georgia. Play We Are More video.
- States Drop Effort To Overturn Section 504, But Continue To Challenge Disability Protections - Michelle Diament, DisabilityScoop.
Events @ Emerging America
Info on Emerging America professional development events: upcoming presentations, past recordings and more.
July 8 - Teaching Disability History Conference - Keene, New Hampshire - Keene State College
- Details about the July 8 conference in Keene, New Hampshire.
- Free conference for teachers, disability advocates, historians, higher education students and allied organizations. Supported by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant.
- $100 stipends for teachers and for disability advocates. Lunch provided.
- Register for the July 8 Conference by July 1.
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 June 19, 5:00-6:00pm Eastern Time. To join the group, email Rich Cairn - rcairn @ collaborative.org.
Recordings, transcript, slides & resources from the virtual Teaching Disability History Conference - 5:00-7:30pm
- 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.
- Through June 6. Experience the Story of Resilience and Community: Cambodians in Amherst - Exhibit at the Massachusetts State House. Info on the exhibit.
- June 5 - 7pm Eastern Time - virtual Inside the Vault: Building the Transcontinental Railroad - Gilder Lehrman Institute.
- June 24-26 - Putney, Vermont - Landmark College Institute for Research and Training.
- Through October. Forty Acres & The American Revolution; Stories of Independence & Servitude - slavery and indenture in the early Republic - Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, Hadley, Massachusetts.
Teaching Resources
- Who Controls the Purse? Presidential Power and the Fight Over Spending - video and teaching materials - RetroReport.
- Sign up for a Civic Stories Program - 30-minute virtual sessions - National Constitution Center.
New at the Library of Congress
- (Log into the TPS Teachers Network.)
- Making primary source documents accessible to multilingual learners - Alison Noyes.
- Album: Spotlighting Oklahoma.
- Album: Newspapers during the American Revolution.
- July 19 - Discover the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled - Family Day at the Library of Congress.
About Emerging America's Inclusive History News
Committed to Access and Inclusion of All Learners in Civics, History and Social Studies
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. Since September, 2024 items appear in an Emerging America blog page from the first of each month, with a monthly Constant Contact email notice to our 2,300+ subscribers. Sign up free at the bottom of the page.
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Image Credits
- This is what the struggle for equality and inclusion looks like. Douglass appeals to Lincoln in 1863 to enlist Black soldiers. William Edouard Scott, artist. (1943). Library of Congress.
- MTA Marks Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with Month of Disability Pride Events. (2023). Marc A. Hermann, MTA. Wikimedia Commons.
- Veterans listen to a "talking book" from the National Library Service - Library of Congress. (1944).
