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Thread:1.What does disability offer as a category of historical analysis? Why does #DisHist matter?Here is an eg:Born in Sardinia, Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) lived with physical disability, possibly due to Pott's
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DisabilityHistory
DisabilityHistr
Thread for #BlackHistoryMonth on #blackdisabilityhistory:1.In 1971, Louis D Mitchell wrote a piece in the @NAACP’s The Crisis mag titled ‘The Blackness of Blindness’, a fascinating piece on the genesis/
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DisabilityHistory
DisabilityHistr
Thread1.The history of this day reveals the internationalisation of disability & disability policy in the twentieth century, and dates back to 1976, when the UN proclaimed 1981 the International Year
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DisabilityHistory
DisabilityHistr
Thread:1/nToday is #NationalDogDay!Time to re-examine the roles dogs have played in #DisHist!For centuries, artists have shown dogs accompanying blind subjects, performers & beggars across the world, suggesting that dogs lived/worked
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Jaipreet Virdi
jaivirdi
Interested in learning more about Disability History or incorporating it into your teaching? A good place to start is my syllabus which is arranged by theme: https://www.history.udel.edu/Documents%20Bios%20CVs/faculty/syllabus/virdi/Virdi_H
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Badger North is a badger
MxBadgerNorth
Thanks to the work of LGBT activists and historians, LGBT histories are being identifiedHow can we identify autistic histories? Normally we look at documentation and material culture. But how can
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