EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 11, Issue 2 for February 15, 2024
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: Teach Disability History Using Court Cases.
Teach Disability History Using Court Cases
The American Bar Association and Emerging America’s Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum offer classroom resources to use landmark Supreme Court cases on disability in the classroom.
President Barack Obama and artist Lois Curtis look at one of her paintings. Official White House Photo, Pete Souza. (2011). https://obamawhitehouse.
Courses & Workshops at Emerging America - Info & Registration.
Syllabi available at link above. Questions? Contact rcairn@collaborative.org or anoyes@collaborative.org.
PDPs / or optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.
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Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources - Northampton, MA (in person)
- March 16 & 30, 2024 two-day workshop in Northampton. PDPs or optional grad credit.
- Register for workshop on teaching Students with Disabilities - in-person.
- Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, teacher HEC Academy.
- Strategies and tools for inclusion, with new, free K-12 Disability History curriculum.
- Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) grant.
- Further details on Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities.
- Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching English Learners.
- Online section in Spring 2024 has been canceled.
Webinars and Conference Sessions from Emerging America
See complete list of Upcoming Presentations, Past Recordings and more.
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Emerging America at the National Council for History Education
- March 7-9, 2024 - Cleveland - Register
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Breakout session:
- Teaching Stories of Disability History: Teachers, Veterans, and Citizens - Rich Cairn, Emerging America
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Posters:
- Reform to Equal Rights: Integrate Disability History into History Class - 1776-2024 - Rich Cairn, Emerging America
- Challenging Primary Sources and Inclusive Teaching: Lessons from Dialogue between History and ESL Teachers - Alison Noyes, Emerging America and Kristen Tabacco, board member, Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies
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Empowerment through Disability History - Hosted by the Learning Disabilities Association of America.
- April 9, 2024 - 5-6pm Eastern Time - Free - Register
- Ross Newton, high school history teacher in Special Education, and Rich Cairn, author of Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum.
- Disability from after the American Revolution through the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and its impacts. Discuss why and how disability history can be integrated into school classrooms.
- For Special Education teachers and interested parents and advocates.
- April 9, 2024 - 5-6pm Eastern Time - Free - Register
News
- DBQs and Primary Sources - a project of Emerging America and the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies - contact Alison Noyes - anoyes@collaborative.org.
- SHEG is now DIG. The Stanford History Education Group has become the Digital Inquiry Group.
- Apply to present at the National Humanities Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, November 13-17, 2024.
- The Massachusetts Civics Project Showcases registration is open. Students share and learn from peers. In-person showcases May 28, June 3 & 7.
- Apply for student and teacher fellowships for archival research at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
- Civics Essay Contest - Nation Center for State Courts. Due March 22.
- 18by Vote receives Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives/Puffin Foundation 2024 Award for Human Rights Activism.
- The next issue of History eNews is March 21. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by March 13.
New at the Library of Congress
Miss Margaret D. Foster, Uncle Sam's only woman chemist. (c1919). Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/resource/
What’s New?
- Primary Sources - Free to Use and Reuse: Scientists & Inventors.
- Library of Congress Internships - Summer with the Congressional Research Service, Summer with the American Folklife Center, and Fall with TPS.
- Apply for Library of Congress Literacy Awards for promoting literacy.
- A Century of Fashion - January-February issue of the Library of Congress Magazine.
- COVID-19 American History Project - Participate through Story Corps - American Folklife Center.
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:
- Give a student an adjective and let them choose a source that somehow fits it - ESL strategy
- NASA Spinoffs: What kind of research for mankind is NASA conducting anyway?
- The Black Heroes of the War of 1812
- Why Did Minnesota Need a New Flag?
- Using Photo Analysis to Build Deeper Understanding
- The Boys in the Boat
- Music as Resistance: Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”
- Where to Begin, When you Search the Library of Congress?
- Albums:
- Album: Novel Maps or Maps from Novels: Engaging Students in Literature
- Album: Celebrating Black History Month & the African American Jewish Community
- Album: Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories
- Album: Images of Provident Hospital - first Black-owned hospital in U.S.
- Album: The Mohawk Trail Region in Primary Sources
Library of Congress Teacher Blog
http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/
- Provident Hospital’s Prominent Physicians
- Using the Veterans History Project for Holocaust Education
- Inventions and Innovations: Thomas Edison and Learning through Failure
- Looking for Leaders Behind the Scenes: Bayard Rustin and his Role in African American History
- Exploring Heritage and Culture Using Library of Congress Collections
Disability History Resources & Updates
- Disability Equality in Education - portal to dozens of disability-related lesson plans K-12 from Pennsylvania-based DEE, with links to a wealth of other lessons, videos and other resources from organizations across the U.S.
- “Museums and History Stuff” section of the January 2024 Disability History newsletter offers resources for making museums accessible.
- History of Accessibility and the Impact of Daniels-Finegold Settlement Agreement - Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority.
- UMass Amherst W.E.B. DuBois Library - Disability Collections - Robert S. Cox Special Collections & University Archives Research Center.
- Disability and Climate Change - public archive.
- Camp Reboot mental health resources for youth - DoSomething.org.
- Petition re mishandling of records and property at the former Fernald Development Center in Massachusetts.
- Disability Vote Statistics - podcast interview of Douglas Kruse and Lisa Schur, Rutgers Program for Disability Research - Barrier Free Futures.
- One Out of Five: Disability History and Pride Project - lesson plans - Washington State Governor’s Office.
- Clear Connection: resources for teaching Deaf and hard-of-hearing students - Learning for Justice.
- Downloadable infographics on Executive Function, Self-Advocacy, and What Is Neurodiversity? - Landmark College.
- Podcast of Bob Kafka interview with photographer Tom Olin - Barrier Free Futures.
- Teaching Resources for the U.S. Election - Facing History and Ourselves.
- U.S. Census Bureau Weighs Overhaul Of Disability Questions - Disability Scoop.
- Children’s Books Recognized For Stories About Disabilities - Disability Scoop.
- See updated portal page: Disability History through Primary Sources - Emerging America.
- Disability History - article by Nicole Belolan in The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook - American Association for State and Local History.
Other Events
Online unless noted. “Hybrid” events are both virtual and in-person.
- February 20 - 7pm - webinar - The Opening of the Protestant Mind - American Antiquarian Society (AAS).
- February 21 - 7:30pm - Charting a Path toward an Indigenous History of Florida - National Council for History Education (NCHE).
- February 22 - 5pm - I Shall Forward to You My Contraband: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North - Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS)
- February 22 - 7:30pm - Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery - NCHE.
- February 28 - 4pm - Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action - Library of Congress.
- February 29 - 2pm - The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown - AAS.
- March 5 - 7pm - Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History of New England's Stone Walls - Historic Northampton.
- March 11-15 - 2024 National Civic Learning Week.
- March 11-15 - 2024 Massachusetts Civic Learning Week.
- March 14 - 7:30pm - Teaching the History of American Slavery - NCHE.
- March 23 - OER Project Conference for Social Studies.
- March 23, April 20, May 11 - 11am - 4:30pm - The Rural Experience in America - NCHE.
- April 23 - 7pm - Armenian Genocide, Armenian Identity, and Life in the United States - National Humanities Center.
- Spring dates - February 28 to April 3 - virtual and in-person options - Project-Based Learning in the Social Studies Classroom: An Introduction to National History Day in Massachusetts - MHS.
- May 3 - HistoryFest - Westfield State University - Pioneer Valley Historical Network. Registration info in the March eNews. Apply to present a workshop: pioneervalleyhistory@gmail.com
. - May 7 - 5-6:30pm - Unpacking the Social Justice Standards - Learning for Justice.
- June 3 - 8:30am - 5pm - Massachusetts History Conference - Devens - registration open soon - Massachusetts Historical Association.
Summer 2024 - All are in-person
- July 15-17 - National Archives, DC - 2024 National Council for the Social Studies Summer Leadership Institute - Finding Your Voice, Finding Your Story.
- American Bar Association Summer Institutes.
- June & July - Professional Development seminars at the Library of Congress - four 3-day sessions.
- National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes - browse list of 44 in-person programs from 1-4 weeks - stipends.
- The Space Age on the Space Coast," in Cape Canaveral, Florida - NCHE.
- 2024 Civics for All of US Teacher Institutes in Washington, DC - National Archives
- Gilder-Lehrman Institute Teacher Seminars - in-person many locations.
March on Washington. Warren K. Leffler, photographer. (1963). Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
Other Resources
- Center for Racial Justice in Education. Resources on Black history for February and year round.
- New game to teach civic engagement: Neighborhood Good - iCivics.
- 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz Was a Catalyst for Indigenous Activism - Retro Report.
- Progressive Era: Black Women Progressives - Hip Hop and History - ABC-CLIO featured digital resources.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York City Public Library.
- New book by Tom Bober: Literature and Primary Sources: The Perfect Pairing for Student Learning.
- Mapping Inequality v3.0 - Redlining in New Deal America - New American History.
- Survival with Dignity: Pauli Murray - online exhibit - American Writers Museum.
- Multimedia Primary Source Discussion Sets - American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
- PBS Masterpiece: Historical Drama - clips for use in teaching history.
- Investigations for Arabic, Spanish, and English-only contexts - University of Michigan.
- Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction - report - Zinn Educational Project.
- Grappling with literacy and freedom - "Kill the Indian, Save the Man": Carlisle Indian Industrial School - Lesson: How did the US try to force Indigenous people to assimilate? - New Visions for Public Schools.
Blog Preview: Teach Disability History Using Court Cases
By Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, HEC Academy
Many teachers teach students to read and analyze famous court cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona. Landmark cases of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) are compelling because they draw students into tangible arguments and details of major turning points in history. Now, thanks to the American Bar Association (ABA) and Reform to Equal Rights, civics and history students can add major cases on disability to the menu of possible investigations.
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