EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 10, Issue 8 for October 19, 2023
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: Announcing a New Online Exhibit on Impacts of the Civil War on Disability.
Announcing a New Online Exhibit:
How Civil War Veterans Transformed Disability
William H. Carney wearing his Medal of Honor. Carney was disabled June 18, 1863 at the Battle of Fort Wagner. Photo by Headley and Reed, New Bedford. (c1900). Massachusetts Historical Society.
Announcing a New Online Exhibit on Impacts of the Civil War on Disability.
Events @ Emerging America - Info & Registration.
Mark your calendars for these Emerging America courses and workshops. Contact rcairn@collaborative.org or anoyes@collaborative.org.
Graduate Courses - Online
PDPs / or optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.
Scholarships for Winter Courses - Registration fees of $50 and $100
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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.
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Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources - (online)
- April 6 - May 17, 2024. Online, asynchronous with live webinars. PDPs or optional grad credit.
- Register for workshop on teaching Students with Disabilities - online.
- Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, teacher HEC Academy. Focus on strategies and tools for inclusion in civics, history, and social studies.
- Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region mini-grant.
- Further details on Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities.
- Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching English Learners.
Presentations and Recordings from Emerging America
Upcoming Presentations
Mark your calendar:
- Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies Conference
- October 22 & 23 - Hyannis. English Learner Collaborations: The Library of Congress' Teaching with Primary Sources grant to the MCSS (poster presentation)
- New Jersey Council for the Social Studies Conference
- October 23 - New Brunswick. Strategies and Tools to Integrate Disability into History, Civics, Government, and Human Rights. Register for NJCSS conference.
- National Council for the Social Studies - Nashville - December 1-3, 2023.
- Info on the NCSS 2023 NCHE Conference.
- Rich Cairn, Emerging America will present on the Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum
- Alison Noyes, English Learner Collaborations/MCSS will present on 'What Do ESL Teachers Wish You Knew'
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Empowering Students with Disability History: A Workshop for Special Education Professionals
- January 30, 2024, 4:30-05:30pm (Eastern Time)
- Rich Cairn, Emerging America and Ross Newton, HEC Academy
- This FREE workshop will support increased attention to disability across the K-12 academic curriculum, by providing basic historical knowledge, free curriculum materials, and strategies for collaboration with elementary teachers and Social Studies and English Language Arts teachers across grades.
- Register here.
See complete list with Past Recordings from Emerging America's short webinars
News
- Join your state and national Council for the Social Studies today for vital events, networking and essential support. National Council links to state councils.
- The Massachusetts legislature overrode the Governor’s veto, securing an annual increase of the Civics Project Trust Fund to $2.5 million. Article on the legislation - CommonWealth.
- Discussing War and Conflict: Resources for Educators, Parents, and Caregivers - Learning for Justice.
- Massachusetts teachers: join a new teacher-created, free Civics Pathways professional development from Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, iCivics, Emerging America, and the MA DESE.
- Join the National History Day program in your state.
- The next issue of History eNews is November 16. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by November 8.
News from the Library of Congress
What's New?
- The Great Migration - a new primary source set in Classroom Materials
- Palabra Archive Digital Release - recordings of Luso-Hispanic poets and writers.
- Transcribe Sheet Music of the Musical Theater - student projects.
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):
- Discussion: Building interest through researching local heroes.
- Discussion: Books Unbanned - Free Brooklyn Public Library eCard for teens - Nationwide
- Discussion: Happy New Year 5784!
- Discussion: Canada and the Underground Railroad
- Discussion: Indian Day School -- an 1898 film by Thomas Edison Company
- Discussion: Explore the debate over immigration in one cartoon
- Discussion: Asking a Mentor (and everyone else) - hands on engagement with historical themes
You may link directly to these resources - no log-in required.
- Album: Speaking of Speakers… (of the House)
- Album: How a Tree Became Liberty
- Album: Hometown Haunts & "Mad" Anthony Wayne
Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/
- Five Questions with Tyrone Bey, 2023-24 Library of Congress Teacher in Residence
- The Great Migration: A New Primary Source Set for Teachers from the Library of Congress
- Five Questions with Kelsey Beeghly, the 2023-2024 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress
- The Library’s Online Research Center and Reading Room Pages: A New Look for Powerful Portals
- Oppenheimer in the News: Newspaper Articles from the 1940s and 50s
- Audio-Visual Resources for Educators
- Using Primary Sources to Reveal What’s Missing from the Story
- Skim-Swim-Dive: Constitution Day Resources from the Library of Congress
Disability History Resources & Updates
White House Conference on Handicapped. President Jimmy Carter, Jack F. Smith, & Dr. Henry Viscardi. (1977). Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
From Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum, Grades 4-5.
- PARC v. Pennsylvania: Pioneering the Right to Education for Children with Cognitive Impairments - National History Day project. Arlington High School.
- October 20-21 Disability in the Vast Early Americas - hybrid conference - University of Notre Dame.
- Video - 50th Anniversary of Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSER) (11:59).
- Blog - History of the Rehabilitation Act at 50 (OSER).
- The Boston Home got a Mass Humanities Expanding Massachusetts Stories grant to collect and share stories of living with a progressive disability.
- Celebrating Young Advocates: Meet Elina Csapo! - Learning Disabilities Association of America podcast.
- Empowering Rebel Talent: A Talk with Denise Brodey - Learning Disabilities Association of America podcast.
- Confronting Negative Stereotypes about Dyslexia/ADHD and Not Settling for Low Expectations - blog post by Lucia - (OSER).
- From Diagnosis to Dreams: The Power of High Expectations and Inclusion - blog post by Dianna Hansen - (OSER).
- American Association of People with Disabilities released its 2024 Disability Presidential Candidate Survey - a comprehensive list of issues.
- John F. Kennedy and People with Intellectual Disabilities
Other Events
Online unless noted. “Hybrid” events are both virtual and in-person.
- Participate in The Rural Experience in America: Community Civics through Historical Inquiry Year 3 with the National Council for History Education.
- Fall - Boston events commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.
- October 22-23 & November 7 - Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies Fall Conference.
- October 23 - New Jersey Council for the Social Studies Fall Conference.
- October 25 - 4:30-6pm - webinar - Teaching the Black Panther Legacy - UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project.
- October 25 - 7pm - webinar - Rail Trails Across Massachusetts - Historic Northampton.
- October 25, November 1 & 8 - online KidCitizen Editor workshops.
- October 25, 6-7pm - hybrid - Gay Community News at 50 - Massachusetts Historical Society.
- October 30 - self-paced online - Planning the Student-Led Civics Projects: “Yeah But What Does It Look Like?” - MA DESE.
- October 30, 6-7pm - hybrid - Bringing Phillis Wheatley to Life - Massachusetts Historical Society.
- November 1, 6-7:30pm - webinar Democracy Awakening: Heather Cox Richardson and Tom Nichols - JFK Library.
- November 4, 9am - webinar - Climate Justice & Colonialism - UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project.
- November 8 - From Head to Heart: Caring for the Environment through Science, Stories, & Action - JFK Library.
- November 21, 6-7pm - webinar - President Kennedy’s Civil Rights Legacy: African American Perspectives - JFK Library.
- November 1, 4, & 15 - sites in Boston - Enslavement & Resistance: New England 1620-1760 - Partnership of Historic Boston
- November 30 & December 6 - Online - Enslavement & Resistance: New England 1620-1760 - Partnership of Historic Boston
- December 1-3 in Nashville - National Council for the Social Studies conference.
- January 8 - One-day workshop - Making Freedom: Resistance, Agency, and Joy - Primary Source.
- February 14 - Frederick Douglass Day observed.
Other Resources
- Tai-the-Math Historian AI-Enhanced Time Travel Adventure! - ScholarWorks - UMass Amherst.
- Hispanic Heritage Month Resources - NCSS.
- Exploring the Writing Process with Primary Source Materials - lesson plans from American Writers Museum.
- Investigating History: New East Asia Unit - Mass DESE.
- New Primary Source Sets from the Massachusetts Historical Society: Massachusetts Loyalists: Revolution and Exile - The Evolving Legacy of Crispus Attucks, 1770-1863 - and more.
- What Would You Do? - video - Teaching about climate change in a community where a large portion of the residents work in the petroleum industry - Ethical Schools Podcast.
- Case: Something in the Water: Controversial Issues and Competitive Debate - Justice in the Schools.
- Illinois Middle School Civics Curriculum - Our American Voice.
- Legal Timelines in American History - Street Law.
- Virtual Field Trips to Ford’s Theater.
- Industrial Revolutions podcast with Dave Broker.
New Blog Post: Announcing a New Online Exhibit on Impacts of the Civil War on Disability
By Rich Cairn, Emerging America
Through pictures, documents, maps, and their own words in letters, speeches, and books, explore the rich experiences of disabled veterans and examine the massive system of institutions that arose to serve them following the Civil War. Reflect also on the stories of nurses who made their own sacrifices to serve wounded soldiers. The exhibit employs nearly 100 primary sources, featuring the collections of the Library of Congress.
The exhibit is fully supported by the inclusive Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum.
Continued… Link to the new blog post.
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