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 ...

Michael Rembis is an expert on disability history, including the history of madness. He is director of the Center for Disability Studies at UB and has worked with colleagues around the world to expand ...

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 ...

DENVER — A small museum tucked inside the offices of Atlantis Community Inc. is working to preserve and share the largely untold history of the disability rights movement in Denver nearly five decades ...

The California State Assembly recently passed a resolution declaring the second week of October 2010 as Disability History Week. The University of California will observe Disability History Week this ...

Introduction: Disability, design, and rights in the twentieth century -- Progress through prosthetics : limbs, cars, houses, and the American dream -- Disability in the century of the gadget : ...

A few years ago, curriculum specialist Richard Cairn showed a photo from the World War II era to two young men he was working with on a campaign to promote teaching disability history. The image shows ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity to honor the history, achievements and struggles of those with disabilities. It originated in 1990 to commemorate the passing of the ...

As the U.S. rolls back aid and protections, these contemporary artists are making the art world, at least, more open. By Julia Halperin Photographs by Melody Melamed ON A SPRING afternoon in 1991, the ...