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 ...

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 ...

Features 8,000+ artifacts documenting disability rights and culture. Preserved office of founder Henry Viscardi Jr. highlights his advocacy work. Offers school field trips, workshops, group tours and ...

Polk State School & Hospital, later renamed Polk Center, is shown in this historical photo. Polk Center, in Venango County, was a state-run institution for people with disabilities that closed earlier ...

What is it like to lose your hearing, or your sight, or to return from war with a disability? Experience life in new ways this October as Bellevue College celebrates national Disability History Month ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — It's something 1 in 10 Minnesotans live with every day: A disability. When it comes to how people with disabilities are treated, there's a grim history -— and the hope of a bright ...

Disability representation is severely lacking in all media, full stop. But horror especially has a weird relationship with disability as so often disability isn’t necessarily ignored, but it is ...

St. ALBANS, W.Va. — The WV Disability History Essay Contest committee is sharing information and accepting entries for the 2025 Disability History Essay Contest in West Virginia. The submission ...