A Revolutionary War novel. A fugitive slave advertisement. Benjamin Franklin’s correspondence. Patient treatment records. The artwork of Edward Calendon Bruce. What do these materials reveal about the history of disability in early North America? How can we read disability into these sources? Where do people with seemingly exceptional bodies and minds appear, and where are… Continue Reading Stories from the Archives: Experiences of Disability in Early America
Stories from the Archives: Experiences of Disability in Early America
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