Throughout the book, Nielsen deftly illustrates how concepts of disability have deeply shaped the American experience-from deciding who was allowed to immigrate to establishing labor laws and justifying slavery and gender discrimination. As historian and disability scholar Nielsen argues, to understand disability history isn’t to narrowly focus on a series of individual triumphs but rather to examine mass movements and pivotal daily events through the lens of varied experiences. By doing so, the book casts new light on familiar stories, such as slavery and immigration, while breaking ground about the ties between nativism and oralism in the late nineteenth century and the role of ableism in the development of democracy.Ī Disability History of the United States pulls from primary-source documents and social histories to retell US history through the eyes, words, and impressions of the people who lived it.
In other ways, it is a radical repositioning of US history. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of disabled people at the center of the American narrative. The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the presentĭisability is not only the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. June 6, 12:30 pm, Printers Row Literary Festival, University Center Loop Room, 525 S.
May 28, 7 pm, Readers Loft Bookstore, Green Bay, Wisconsin October 2009, Wisconsin Literary Festival My most recent book is Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller (Beacon Press, 2009). Studying history means I get to read biography and consider it work. State St., 3rd floor, Chicago, Illinois Ever since I was a kid exploring my community's old Carnegie library, I had loved biography! Now I'm professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Author appearances: - October 2009, Wisconsin Literary Festival - May 28, 7 pm, Readers Loft Bookstore, Green Bay, Wisconsin - June 6, 12:30 pm, Printers Row Literary Festival, University Center Loop Room, 525 S. Ever since I was a kid exploring my community's old Carnegie library, I had loved biography! Now I'm professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
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