Ross Newton is a History Teacher at HEC Academy in Northampton, a special education public high school of the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES). He earned a B.A. from Hampshire College and a Ph.D. in History from Northeastern University and studied Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction at Boston University. He has published on early American history, taught college and high school, and shared history with school groups and the general public at public history sites in Boston and Philadelphia. His research interests include disability history and early America. In his current teaching role, he relates history to students’ lives through primary source inquiry and counternarratives about the agency and collective power of historically marginalized groups.