A one-of-a-kind museum chronicling disability history is reopening after a five-year hiatus in a new, bigger space that's ...

The Long Island facility is fully accessible and features 14 portals that peer into different moments in disability history.

Jaipreet Virdi was living and teaching in Canada, where she had grown up and earned her doctorate in the history of science, technology and medicine, when she found out about a job opening on the ...

Introduction / Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen -- Part I. Concepts and questions. The perils and promises of disability biography / Kim E. Nielsen -- Disability history and Greco ...

Throughout history, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been misunderstood and mistreated, from legal sterilization to poor conditions at institutions. People with ...

DENVER — A small museum tucked inside the offices of Atlantis Community Inc. is working to preserve and share the largely untold history of the disability rights movement in Denver nearly five decades ...

Activists participate in a Section 504 demonstration on April 5, 1977, in front of San Francisco City Hall. This demonstration, one of a number held around the country, occurred hours before activists ...

Judy Heumann remembers the day she went to register for kindergarten in 1952. She’d gotten dressed up and her mother had pulled her wheelchair up a flight of stairs before the principal intervened.

UC Berkeley is known as the home of the disability rights movement due to a rich history of student activism and advocacy. This history largely began in 1962 when Ed Roberts, who was paralyzed by ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Museum of disABILITY History which has been closed to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic has announced its permanent closure. A release says in part: "Like so many ...

Thirty years after the passage of the A.D.A., a Times project featuring more than two dozen articles looks at the many facets of the law’s impact and the work that still lies ahead. By Amisha Padnani ...