The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability
is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is …

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of
disabilities came to be labeled as" unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had …

Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching
the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory …

Academics often speak about love for their subject, mathematicians discuss their love for
figures and numbers, and elementary school teachers speak about their love of children. As …

This chapter addresses three primary questions: What is disability culture? What is disability
studies? How do these two interact? Disability culture is explored as a movement “from the …

Proximity can be overwhelming. Proximity can be particularly overwhelming in these modern
times, when groups and individuals find themselves in the grip of regimes demanding that …

Common Core State Standards Initiative mandates increased readings of informational texts
within English Language Arts starting in elementary school. Accurate, age-appropriate, and …

Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist for the Mark
Lynton History Prize “Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic …

Recent debate among bioethicists concerns the potential to enhance human beings'
physical or cognitive capacities by means of genetic, pharmacological, cybernetic, or …

This essay is an exploratory history of American educators as viewed through the lens of
disability studies. By this I mean that I am looking at the history of school teachers with …