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Infusing Disability History into the Classroom by Rich Cairn & Graham Warder

Do you and your students know about the erased history of Jim Crow and Civil Rights Outside the South? 

News of the Field 

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. Now to make news more current and to ease production, items will appea…

In this insightful article, Newhouse explores practical approaches and resources to integrating disability history into teaching about:

She interviews teachers who have taught lessons from the Reform to…

Leah M. Bueso, University of Illinois Springfield, and Rich Cairn, Emerging America published a groundbreaking foundation and guide to organizing student-led civic engagement projects that are fully accessible to and inclusive of students with disabilities and all learners. The chapter entitled Developing the Civic Engagement of Students with Disabilities: Inclusive Civic Action Projects examin…

Guest post by Nancy Spannaus

It is common practice to present the American System of Economics as the invention of Kentucky politician Henry Clay, who served as a leading spokesman for that policy in the Federal government from 1806 to his death in 1852. But in his advocacy for the key components of the American System–Federal protection for manufactures,…

By Rich Cairn, History, Civics & Social Studies Inclusion Specialist, CES

Slides from presentation by Rich Cairn at the virtual conference: A More Perfect Union: Exploring America's Story in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, June 17, 2024

A More Perfect Union: Exploring America's Story in the Gilded Age and…

Update: August 4, 2025 - After 30 years, on June 30 Brown University abruptly shut down the Choices Program and all its curriculum and resources. 

Guest post by Max Chervin Bridge