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Here we are - the Disability History Association has officially moved to Bluesky! Please follow & share as we get ourselves acclimated ✨🗃️#dishist
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The 2026 Disability History Association Publication Awards are now open! Please visit our website to find nomination details.
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Another new post is up on our blog, All of Us! You can read "Age, Disability, and Race in Boston’s Home for Aged Colored Women" by Kathryn Angelica here! 🗃️
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Age, Disability, and Race in Boston’s Home for Aged Colored Women - All of Us
Although no images of Black women residents are extant, investigating census and public records may reveal more about their lives before their time in the Home. (Unidentified African American Woman, c...
https://allofusdha.org/research/age-disability-and-race-in-bostons-home-for-aged-colored-women/
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In the newest All of Us essay, Vitalis Nwashindu considers a different way of defining disability in northern Igboaland, Nigeria. Read now!
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Imagining “Deviance” as Disability in a Precolonial Igbo Village in Southern Nigeria: The Mgbowo Example - All of Us
Introduction Over time, scholars of disabilities have focused on medical models and physical disfigurements as benchmarks for assessing disablement. Although physical impairments could lead to bodily ...
https://allofusdha.org/research/imagining-deviance-as-disability-in-a-precolonial-igbo-village-in-southern-nigeria-the-mgbowo-example/
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In this new All of Us essay, Keith Rosenthal tells us about John Cunningham, who fought back against Jim Crow segregation in the New York Association for the Blind. Read now! 🗃️
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John Cunningham and the Struggle Against ‘Separate-But-Equal’ Colored-Blindness in Depression-Era New York City - All of Us
“We White People Are Prejudiced” In June 1936, John J. Cunningham, a thirty-year-old blind Black man, attended a recreation night at the New York Association for the Blind (NYAB), also known as the “L...
https://allofusdha.org/research/john-cunningham-and-the-struggle-against-separate-but-equal-colored-blindness-in-depression-era-new-york-city/
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📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
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We're thrilled to share a new post from our blog, All of Us! Rasheed Hassan shares their research on the "paradoxical turn" that disability took in the US during the age of enslavement.
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Resistance and Disability in American Slavery - All of Us
In this blog post, I investigate the intersection of slavery and disability in the American South from 1808 to 1861. I argue that disability took a paradoxical turn in American South during our period...
https://allofusdha.org/research/resistance-and-disability-in-american-slavery/
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The DHA Spring newsletter is out now! Not on our list? You can read it here.
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DHA Quarterly Newsletter - Spring 2025
https://mailchi.mp/9614542bdf6a/dha-quarterly-newsletter-spring-2025
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We want to celebrate all the exciting new scholarship in our field! Submit your nominations now for the Outstanding Chapter or Article award and Outstanding Book award. Nominations are due May 15. Visit
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We have a new essay up on our blog, All of Us! Please read and share.
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🗃️https://allofusdha.org/research/physician-heal-thyself-michael-wigglesworth-puritan-poet-and-physician/
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“Physician, Heal Thyself”: Michael Wigglesworth, Puritan, Poet, and Physician - All of Us
Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) is most famous today for writing a book that became a bestseller throughout the colonized eastern Atlantic seaboard: The Day of Doom: or a Poetical Description of the ...
https://allofusdha.org/research/physician-heal-thyself-michael-wigglesworth-puritan-poet-and-physician/
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Hey
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fam, our prizes for 2025 are now open! All the details for nominations can be found on our website,
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Have you renewed your membership for 2025? Every membership dollar is critical to our ability to provide services like honoring the best books & articles in our field, sponsoring student conference travel, and offering accessible programming. Please join or renew today!
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Have you renewed your membership for 2025? Every membership dollar is critical to our ability to provide services like honoring the best books and articles in our field, sponsoring student conference travel, and offering accessible programming. Please join or renew today!
dishist.org/membership/m...
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The DHA is proud to co-sponsor the New Directions in Black Disability Studies conference at the University of Virginia! This event is free, open to the public, and being streamed for virtual attendance! To learn more and register, please go here:
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Our blog, All of Us, has a new essay! In this essay, Anna Derksen, a lectuerer at the University of Greifswald in Germany, writes about "the possibilities and limitations of object-based museum exhibitions on disability."
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Between and Beyond Objects: Narrating Eugenics in a Museum Collection - All of Us
On the left, we can see a compilation of cozy furniture, little porcelain figurines, and photos of laughing nurses; on the right, a rusty bedstead beneath a picture of a sterile, monotonous dormitory....
https://allofusdha.org/research/between-and-beyond-objects-narrating-eugenics-in-a-museum-collection/
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Here we are - the Disability History Association has officially moved to Bluesky! Please follow & share as we get ourselves acclimated ✨🗃️#dishist
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