Browsing Library by Subject "Disability history"
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Disability records: Accessing the inaccessible
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2017-05-25)This presentation documented the development of the Texas Disability History Collection. The presentation was given at the Society of Southwest Archivists 2017 annual meeting. -
“EVERY GOOD MAN IS A QUAKER, AND THAT NONE BUT GOOD MEN ARE QUAKERS”: TRANSATLANTIC QUAKER HUMANITARIANS, DISABILITY, AND MARKETING ENLIGHTENED REFORM, 1730-1834
(2016-02-24)This dissertation explores how Quaker humanitarians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries actively absorbed and employed emerging Enlightenment discourses about “disability” and human dependency as a means to build ...