Disability History Association

Age, Disability, and Race in Boston’s Home for Aged Colored Women  - All of Us Although no images of Black women residents are extant, investigating census and public records may reveal more about their lives before their time in the Home. (Unidentified African American Woman, c...

Another new post is up on our blog, All of Us! You can read "Age, Disability, and Race in Boston’s Home for Aged Colored Women" by Kathryn Angelica here! 🗃️ #dishist allofusdha.org/research/age...

Imagining “Deviance” as Disability in a Precolonial Igbo Village in Southern Nigeria: The Mgbowo Example  - All of Us Introduction Over time, scholars of disabilities have focused on medical models and physical disfigurements as benchmarks for assessing disablement. Although physical impairments could lead to bodily ...

In the newest All of Us essay, Vitalis Nwashindu considers a different way of defining disability in northern Igboaland, Nigeria. Read now! allofusdha.org/research/ima... 🗃️ #dishist #histmed

John Cunningham and the Struggle Against ‘Separate-But-Equal’ Colored-Blindness in Depression-Era New York City - All of Us “We White People Are Prejudiced” In June 1936, John J. Cunningham, a thirty-year-old blind Black man, attended a recreation night at the New York Association for the Blind (NYAB), also known as the “L...

In this new All of Us essay, Keith Rosenthal tells us about John Cunningham, who fought back against Jim Crow segregation in the New York Association for the Blind. Read now! 🗃️ #dishist allofusdha.org/research/joh...

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Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

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Resistance and Disability in American Slavery - All of Us In this blog post, I investigate the intersection of slavery and disability in the American South from 1808 to 1861. I argue that disability took a paradoxical turn in American South during our period...

We're thrilled to share a new post from our blog, All of Us! Rasheed Hassan shares their research on the "paradoxical turn" that disability took in the US during the age of enslavement. allofusdha.org/research/res... 🗃️ #dishist

The DHA Spring newsletter is out now! Not on our list? You can read it here. mailchi.mp/9614542bdf6a...

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We want to celebrate all the exciting new scholarship in our field! Submit your nominations now for the Outstanding Chapter or Article award and Outstanding Book award. Nominations are due May 15. Visit dishist.org for more details.

“Physician, Heal Thyself”: Michael Wigglesworth, Puritan, Poet, and Physician - All of Us Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) is most famous today for writing a book that became a bestseller throughout the colonized eastern Atlantic seaboard: The Day of Doom: or a Poetical Description of the ...

We have a new essay up on our blog, All of Us! Please read and share. #dishist 🗃️https://allofusdha.org/research/physician-heal-thyself-michael-wigglesworth-puritan-poet-and-physician/

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Hey #dishist fam, our prizes for 2025 are now open! All the details for nominations can be found on our website, www.dishist.org. 🗃️

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Have you renewed your membership for 2025? Every membership dollar is critical to our ability to provide services like honoring the best books & articles in our field, sponsoring student conference travel, and offering accessible programming. Please join or renew today! dishist.org/membership/m...

This image shows a membership renewal advertisement for the Disability History Association (DHA). At the top is the website URL "www.dishist.org" followed by large purple text that reads "RENEW TODAY!" The center displays a laptop mockup showing the DHA website with a prominent membership renewal button and three feature sections labeled "All of Us" (blog), "Teaching" (syllabi and resources), and "Podcast" (podcast series). The bottom of the image has text on a purple background stating: "Have you renewed your DHA membership for 2025? Every membership dollar is vital to our mission of providing programming, supporting disability history research, and sponsoring research & travel. Join or renew today!"

Have you renewed your membership for 2025? Every membership dollar is critical to our ability to provide services like honoring the best books and articles in our field, sponsoring student conference travel, and offering accessible programming. Please join or renew today! dishist.org/membership/m...

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The DHA is proud to co-sponsor the New Directions in Black Disability Studies conference at the University of Virginia! This event is free, open to the public, and being streamed for virtual attendance! To learn more and register, please go here: dishist.org/dha-co-spons...

CONTRIBUTE - All of Us At All of Us, we are looking for diverse contributions to our blog. Anyone may submit a pitch or blog post for consideration, including scholars, undergraduates, secondary school teachers, members of ...

Want to write for All of Us? Pitch us! allofusdha.org/contribute/

Between and Beyond Objects: Narrating Eugenics in a Museum Collection - All of Us On the left, we can see a compilation of cozy furniture, little porcelain figurines, and photos of laughing nurses; on the right, a rusty bedstead beneath a picture of a sterile, monotonous dormitory....

Our blog, All of Us, has a new essay! In this essay, Anna Derksen, a lectuerer at the University of Greifswald in Germany, writes about "the possibilities and limitations of object-based museum exhibitions on disability." allofusdha.org/research/bet...

Here we are - the Disability History Association has officially moved to Bluesky! Please follow & share as we get ourselves acclimated ✨🗃️#dishist