Jaipreet Virdi was living and teaching in Canada, where she had grown up and earned her doctorate in the history of science, technology and medicine, when she found out about a job opening on the ...

Disability history; disability, race, gender, class and sexuality; intersectionality; ableism; African American history; history of slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War Jenifer Barclay is an ...

The Ministry of Youth, Social Development and Seniors recognises Disability History Month, observed from 20 November to 20 December, as a time to “reflect on Bermuda’s long history of disability ...

Introduction / Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen -- Part I. Concepts and questions. The perils and promises of disability biography / Kim E. Nielsen -- Disability history and Greco ...

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Public History Project held a live virtual presentation event about the history of disability at the ...

A group of Massachusetts 11th-graders spent the school year collecting documents and artifacts, including an early 20th century precursor of a... These High Schoolers Are Calling For A National ...

Alice Wong, 51, amplified the voices of disabled Americans with her books and her oral history platform, the Disability ...

Throughout history, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been misunderstood and mistreated, from legal sterilization to poor conditions at institutions. People with ...

Judy Heumann remembers the day she went to register for kindergarten in 1952. She’d gotten dressed up and her mother had pulled her wheelchair up a flight of stairs before the principal intervened.

As contentious claims over rising diagnoses get a presidential platform, Simon Baron-Cohen explains where talk of an ...

The 2024 Oscars will include confidential accessibility requests for all nominees and guests, captioning, audio description, in-theater assisted listening devices, accessible seating and parking, and ...