Jaipreet Virdi was living and teaching in Canada, where she had grown up and earned her doctorate in the history of science, technology and medicine, when she found out about a job opening on the ...

Remains reveal physically impaired woman was ‘supported, valued and buried with honour by her community’ ...

Disability history; disability, race, gender, class and sexuality; intersectionality; ableism; African American history; history of slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War Jenifer Barclay is an ...

Throughout history, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been misunderstood and mistreated, from legal sterilization to poor conditions at institutions. People with ...

One in four U.S. adults (61 million) has some type of disability. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) offers federal protection for these individuals to prohibit employers from discriminating ...

UC Berkeley is known as the home of the disability rights movement due to a rich history of student activism and advocacy. This history largely began in 1962 when Ed Roberts, who was paralyzed by ...

Building a more inclusive future means understanding why certain groups were absent in history. kyotokushige/DigitalVision via Getty Images Jennifer Erkulwater is a ...

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 ...

Every year, World Disability Day serves as a powerful reminder of the need to build a world that is inclusive, accessible, and equitable for people with disabilities. It highlights the challenges ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Museum of disABILITY History which has been closed to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic has announced its permanent closure. A release says in part: "Like so many ...