Introduction / Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen -- Part I. Concepts and questions. The perils and promises of disability biography / Kim E. Nielsen -- Disability history and Greco ...

Over 8,000 artifacts, documents, books, and photographs conveying the history of the disability rights movement are at the Museum of Disability History at the Viscardi Center on Long Island, New York.

A one-of-a-kind museum chronicling disability history is reopening after a five-year hiatus in a new, bigger space that’s hundreds of miles away from its previous home. The Museum of Disability ...

Dr. Chris Rosa, president of the Museum of Disability History in New York, spoke with “Enable: The Disability Podcast” about some of his favorite exhibits featuring famous people with disabilities, ...

Long Island is home to a series of legendary museums. From the Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor to the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale to the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, the ...

Gann Academy students Gabe Rosen and Elianna Gerut are two of the curators of the "Disability History of the United States" exhibit at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham, ...

Re-membering the past : reflections on disability histories / Susan Burch and Michael Rembis -- Part 1. Family, community, and daily life : part introduction and guiding questions. Disability, ...

In the past, people with disabilities of all ages were shut away and ignored, cast off by families and society, or ridiculed because of their differences. Thankfully that is continuing to change due ...

How much do you know about the history of disability? If the answer is “not a lot,” you’re not alone. The voices and experiences of disabled people are often nowhere to be found in history books and ...

In the introduction, the editors wrote, 'By its very nature, an Oxford Handbook offers legitimacy to disability history, an indication of the field's growing import.' A pioneering professor of ...

When I was growing up, I lived in a community of me. I was the only other child with a disability that I knew. I'd never met an adult with a disability. There were no prominent people with ...