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HIST 397: Seminar Disability (in) History

Making Disability Modern

Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance

More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan

Disability Histories

Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War

Disability and Passing

Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and Future of Neurodiversity

Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen, and Other Photographic Rhetoric

Recommended Resources

Disability in the Modern World
Disability scholarship with an interdisciplinary focus, including primary sources, supporting materials, video, and archives. Mass media and activism are covered.

Disability Studies Quarterly
Multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities and arts, disability rights advocates, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities.

ProQuest Central
Multi-disciplinary database providing abstract & indexing with select full text for many core scholarly journals as well as popular press periodicals.
JSTOR

Scholarly, academic journal articles, books, and book chapters

Additional Finds

Disability History Museum
Primary documents and visual materials to "help expand knowledge and understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities in the United States."
Podcast: The Right Stuff
In this Radiolab episode, reporter Andrew Leland joins a blind linguistics professor and a crew of eleven other disabled people on a mission to prove that disabled people have what it takes to go to space.
Podcast: The Helen Keller Exorcism
In this Radiolab episode, fantasy writer Elsa Sjunneson explores the life and work of the Deafblind icon, Helen Keller.
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