Deaf History
The Deaf Experience
Classics in Language and Education
The seminal study of the antecedents of Deaf culture is now back in print. Edited by renowned scholar Harlan Lane, The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education presents a selection of the earliest ...
The History of Inclusion in the United States
First Edition
As a significant term, inclusion came into use relatively recently in the long history of special education in the United States. Since the 1800s, when children with disabilities first were segregated ...
From Pity to Pride
Growing Up Deaf in the Old South
First Edition
The antebellum South’s economic dependence on slavery engendered a rigid social order in which a small number of privileged white men dominated African Americans, poor whites, women, and many people ...
Crying Hands
Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany
When the Nazis assumed power in Germany in 1933, they wasted no time in implementing their radical policies, first by securing passage of the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases. ...
Damned for Their Difference
The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled
First Edition
Until the recent recognition of Deaf culture and the legitimacy of signed languages, majority societies around the world have classified Deaf people as “disabled,” a term that separates all persons ...
Gaillard in Deaf America
A Portrait of the Deaf Community, 1917, Henri Gaillard
First Edition
In 1917, Henri Gaillard led a delegation of deaf French men to the United States for the centennial celebration of the American School for the Deaf (ASD). The oldest school for deaf students in America, ...
A Mighty Change
An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816 - 1864
First Edition
“I need not tell you that a mighty change has taken place within the last half century, a change for the better,” Alphonso Johnson, the president of the Empire State Association of Deaf-Mutes, signed ...
Deaf History Unveiled
Interpretations from the New Scholarship
