Interesting Stuff on the Web
Polio Oral History Project - the American West Center at the University of Utah is developing an oral history record of Polio survivors and clinicians who treated Polio.
Disability History Week Campaign - from YO! Youth Organizing Disabled and Proud
Listen to Ever Lee Hairston's speech at the conference of the National Federation of the Blind of California in October 2009
My Whole Expanse I Cannot See… – the blog of Michael Phillips, a writer from Tampa, FL. who doesn’t walk nor breathe without the assistance of machines.
Books and Articles on Disability History
The Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Authored by Susan Burch, Ph.D., Foreword by Paul K. Longmore, Ph.D. – Like race and gender, disability has recently become a critical field of study in examining our nation’s heritage.
Seeing Beyond Sight, by Tony Deifell — photographs by blind teenagers — "What are you thinking, teaching photography to blind people?"
Faces of War, Smithsonian Magazine, February 2007 – Wounded tommies facetiously called it "The Tin Noses Shop." Located within the 3rd London General Hospital, its proper name was the "Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department"; either way, it represented one of the many acts of desperate improvisation borne of the Great War, which had overwhelmed all conventional strategies for dealing with trauma to body, mind and soul.
Make them go away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and The Case Against Disability Rights by Mary Johnson, Advocado Press, 2003
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability by Paul Longmore, Temple Press, 2003
Silence is a four-letter word: On art and deafness by Raymond Luczak, The Tactile Mind Press, 2003
"The Political Economy of Disablement: Advances and Contradictions," by Marta Russell and Ravi Malhotra, from the Socialist Register 2002
The New Disability History : American Perspectives (History of Disability) by Paul Longmore and Lauri Umanksy (eds.)
The Disability Rights Movement : From Charity to Confrontation by Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames
Video
Disabled Women: Visions and Voices from the 4th World Conference on Women
Disability Projects on the Web
Education for Disability and Gender Equity, a high school curriculum incorporating disability and gender issues into humanities and science
THE CHAIR: Holocaust Memorial to Disabled People
"With our hearts let us see, with your hands let us break every
chain. Then, indeed, shall we know a better and nobler humanity."
- Helen Keller
"Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of
adversity'... disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live."
- Neil Marcus
