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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - November-December 2025

Published on Fri, 10/31/2025

A thin older man with combed dark hair grips a chain link fence which he leans into and stares through intently.

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

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - October 2025

Published on Tue, 09/30/2025

On the street during a march, a man in a cowboy hat and t-shirt using a wheelchair holds a sign reading "Cutting my bus cuts my independence"

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 October Blog Post: Supporting Teachers to Teach Disability History with Confidence: Lessons from New Jersey by Nicole Hansen, Christa S. Bialka and Teresa G. Wojcik. 

 

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - August-September 2025

Published on Fri, 08/01/2025

A hand holds a card reading "Teach Disability History" in front of the steps of the U.S. Capitol site of the 1990 Capitol Crawl protest

In this Issue:

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

 

Updated 09/08/2025

Featured August-September Blog Post: Brad Lomax: The Disabled Black Panther Who Fought for Section 504 by Saphire Murphy. 

 

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - May 2025

Published on Thu, 05/01/2025

A newspaper photograph shows dozens of members of the League of the Physically Handicapped in around a truck that they drove from New York to Washington to demand access to WPA jobs.

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

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

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - April 2025

Published on Tue, 04/01/2025

Inaccessible curb, mid-20th century. A wheelchair is rolled right up to the edge.

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

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

 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - March 2025

Published on Sat, 03/01/2025

A diverse group of ADAPT activist surround a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. The activists are young and old, black and white, ambulatory and wheelchair users. The group is gathered around the base of the statue, most of them are sitting around it in a clump. Other activists in the background are at the entrance of a building, showing the lack of accessibility to wheelchair users via the building's steps.

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

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

 

March featured blog: "Completely Healthy Children:" The Persistence of Disabled Children and Their Allies During Aktion T4 and the Holocaust - by Wyatt Edwards

 

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Eugenics: Teaching Agency and the Roots of Genocide

Published on Sun, 02/02/2025

Eugenists would improve human stock by blotting out blood taints. Menaces to society. Images show adults with developmental disabilities and claims their "mental" ages range from 6 to 8. Text from the news article argues for examining couples prior to marriage and sterilizing those deemed "unfit".

The Dehumanizing Effects of Eugenics: Disability History Lesson Plan

By Rich Cairn 

The engravings on the right of two young women are haunting. Aside from the clothing, these faces could easily be high school or college students today. Yet these images appeared in the New York Tribune in 1912 under the headline, “Eugenists Would Improve Human Stock by Blotting Out Blood Taints,” with the subheading, “Menaces to Society.” These women represent the millions of targets of eugenics. 

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Emerging America's Inclusive History News - February 2025

Published on Sat, 02/01/2025

Eugenists would improve human stock by blotting out blood taints. Menaces to society. Images show adults with developmental disabilities and claims their "mental" ages range from 6 to 8. Text from the news article argues for examining couples prior to marriage and sterilizing those deemed "unfit".

Inclusive History News

In this Issue:

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

 

February Featured Blog Post - Eugenics: Teaching Agency and the Roots of Genocide - including lesson from Reform to Equal Rights

 

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