Deaf History | Gallaudet University Press

Telling Deaf Lives

Agents of Change

1st Edition

Edited by Kristin Snoddon
Foreword by Anita Small
Introduction by Joseph J. Murray
Categories: Deaf Studies, Deaf Communities and Cultures, Deaf History

In July 2012, the 8th Deaf History International (DHI) Conference featured 27 presentations from members of Deaf communities around the world who related their own autobiographies as well as the biographies ...

Signs and Wonders

Religious Rhetoric and the Preservation of Sign Language

1st Edition

By Tracy Ann Morse
Categories: Deaf History, Disability Studies, American Sign Language Research

Current academic discourse frequently understates the role of religion in the development of the American Deaf community. In her new study, Tracy Ann Morse effects a sharp course correction by delineating ...

Illusions of Equality

Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950

1st Edition

By Robert M. Buchanan
Categories: Deaf History, Deaf Studies

The working lives of Deaf Americans from the mid-1850s to the post-World War II era depended upon strategies created by Deaf community leaders to win and keep jobs through periods of low national employment ...

Deaf History and Culture in Spain

A Reader of Primary Documents

1st Edition

Edited by Benjamin Fraser
Introduction by Sam Supalla
Categories: Deaf History, Deaf Studies, Deaf Communities and Cultures

In this landmark reader, Benjamin Fraser offers in five parts 44 Spanish documents dating from 1417 to the present, translated for the first time to trace the turbulent history of Deaf culture in Spain. ...

Forging Deaf Education in Nineteenth-Century France

Biographical Sketches of Bébian, Sicard, Massieu, and Clerc

1st Edition

By Ferdinand Berthier
Edited by Freeman G. Henry
Categories: Deaf History, Deaf Education, Deaf Communities and Cultures

In 1811, deaf student Ferdinand Berthier commenced his education at the National Institute for the Deaf in Paris under its director Abbé Sicard and his teachers Auguste Bébian, Jean Massieu, and Laurent ...

A Fair Chance in the Race of Life

The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History

1st Edition

Edited by Brian H. Greenwald & John Vickrey Van Cleve
Categories: Deaf History, Gallaudet University

Despite its prominence as a world cultural center and a locus of research on deaf culture, history, education, and language for more than 150 years, Gallaudet University has only infrequently been the ...

Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France

1st Edition

By Anne T. Quartararo
Categories: Deaf History, Deaf Studies, Deaf Communities and Cultures

Since the French Revolution in1789, Deaf French people have struggled to preserve their cultural heritage, to win full civil rights, and to gain access to society through their sign language. Anne T. ...

The Spanish National Deaf School

Portraits from the Nineteenth Century

First Edition

By Susan Plann
Categories: Deaf History, Deaf Education

In nineteenth-century Spain, the education of deaf students took shape through various contradictory philosophies and practices. Susan Plann depicts this ambivalence by profiling a select group of teachers ...

The Deaf History Reader

First Edition

Edited by John Vickrey Van Cleve
Categories: Deaf History, Deaf Communities and Cultures

The Deaf History Reader presents nine masterful chapters that bring together a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America. This collection features the finest scholarship from ...

Crossing the Divide

Representations of Deafness in Biography

By Rachel M. Hartig
Categories: Literature / Poetry / Literary Studies, Biography / Memoir, Deaf History

This remarkable volume examines the process by which three deaf, French biographers from the 19th and 20th centuries attempted to cross the cultural divide between deaf and hearing worlds through their ...