A one-of-a-kind museum chronicling disability history is reopening after a five-year hiatus in a new, bigger space that's ...

Long Island is home to a series of legendary museums. From the Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor to the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale to the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, the ...

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 ...

“We try to explore the role of people with disabilities throughout history and it’s constantly evolved,” said Doug Platt, Museum of disABILITY Curator. When you walk into the Museum 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 the introduction, the editors wrote, 'By its very nature, an Oxford Handbook offers legitimacy to disability history, an indication of the field's growing import.' A pioneering professor of ...

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 5, 1978 file photo, a group of blind persons and others picket in front of the Federal Aviation Administration Building in Washington to protest an FAA regulation that ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The University of Georgia hosted the sixth annual Disability History Symposium at ...

This interdisciplinary minor examines disability from perspectives in health sciences, humanities and social sciences. Gaining a well-rounded understanding of disability history, rights, and lived ...

October is Disability History and Awareness Month in Delaware. As the month nears its close – somehow – a few packed informational events are on the horizon for families across the state this week. In ...

When I was growing up, I lived in a community of me. I was the only other child with a disability that I knew. I'd never met an adult with a disability. There were no prominent people with ...