History eNews from Emerging America - July 17, 2019

EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 6, Issue 24 for July 17, 2019

 

NEWS

• Library of Congress opens online exhibit: "Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote." Virtual Tour

• Library of Congress Announces Reading-Writing Competition Winners - Students in grades 4 to 12 to write to an author about how his or her work affected their lives. 

• Mass DYS seeks teachers and educational leaders. 

  • Link to all content areas posting 

  • Link to CES Employment. 

 

Accessing Inquiry Workshop/Graduate Course

July 29-30 slots still open. Fall registration open soon! 

 

Working for Independence. 

"IMG_1059" by Healthy Community Living is licensed under CC PDM 1.0 

 

EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA - Info & Registration.

Contact rcairn@collaborative.org.

 

HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION COURSES

PDPs / Or optional grad credit available from Westfield State University. 

Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources. Instructors Alison Noyes and Laurie Risler. Meets Massachusetts 15-hour requirement for professional development on strategies to teach students with disabilities and diverse learners. Register. Optional 1 grad credit. 

• July 29-30 - South Hadley Public Library. 

 

NEW RESOURCES AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

• TPS Teachers Network - Teachers with experience working with primary sources are welcome to join this network. 

  • Featured this week - YOU MUST LOGIN FIRST FOR THESE LINKS TO WORK:

  • Feature Discussions:

    • Disabilities in the Statistical Atlas for 1860 and 1870

    • Teaching with the Children's Object Book

    • Picture Books and Primary Sources: Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution. By Rob Sanders and Jamey Christoph

    • Mississippi River Plantations 1858

    • Looking back on the U.S. Space Program as we celebrate Apollo

• Library of Congress Developments

  • July 25 - 4-5pm - Webinar: Changes to the Library of Congress Teachers Page  - Overview - Information and Registration 

• New Resources at the Library of Congress

  • Persian Literary Traditions

 

Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/

• Five Questions with Christopher Hartten, Archivist in the Music Division

• An Independence Day Safety Reminder

• Five Questions with Megan Harris, Senior Reference Specialist, Veterans History Project

• 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Historic American Engineering Record Collection

 

OTHER RECOMMENDED EVENTS - Across Massachusetts and the U.S. 

• July 20 - 10am-4:30pm - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: JFK Space Fest 2019 - Information and Registration 

• July 22 - 26 - 8:30am-3:30pm - Primary Source: Crossroads of Culture - The Islamic World (570-1700) - Information and Registration 

• July 25 - 7pm - Historic Deerfield: Marketplace of Revolution: American Consumers in a World of Goods - Deerfield Community Center - Information 

• July 28 - 9am-3pm - Springfield Museums: Indian Motorcycle Day - Information 

• July 30 - August 1 - 8:30am-3:30pm - Facing History and Ourselves: Democracy at Risk - Holocaust and Human Behavior - Information and Registration 

• August 3 - 9am-3:15pm - Pioneer Valley History Network: Magical History Tour - Information 

• August 29 - 3pm - 4pm - Minnesota Historical Society: Teaching African American History: The Long Road to Civil Rights - Information and Registration 

• August 31 - 9am-8pm - National Book Festival (Washington, D.C.) - Information 

• September 19 - 7pm - National Council for History Education: American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Space Race - Registration information to come 

 

Resources:

• Teaching Tolerance - Teaching Stonewall’s 50th Anniversary 

• Primary Source - Democracy Lab: 8th Grade Civics for the 21st Century 

• Facing History and Ourselves - Brother Outsider: Remembering Gay Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin 

• National Trail of Tears Association

 

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