The Long Island facility is fully accessible and features 14 portals that peer into different moments in disability history.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Graham Warder, associate professor and chair of the Keene State History Department, will direct the grant-funded project. Keene State College has been awarded a nearly $100,000 Library of Congress ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Ari Ne’eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call autism an “epidemic” that “destroys families,” Ne’eman felt like he had stepped into a time machine — heading in the wrong direction. It was during an ...