What skills would be required for each job? We don't have a date except for "World War I Era"; are these marketable skills in that period?  Disability History

Hello everyone! I teach at Burlington High School and teach 9th grade US History I and senior electives.

Disability comes up in American History in precious few places in the most widely used narratives. We see it if it connects to a person who successfully overcame it (i.e.: Hellen Keller, FDR) and the narrative around it mirrors that of civil rights leaders like Rosa Parks: “See? This person is amazing!” (tending to overlook or underplay actual circumstances) We rarely, if ever, encounter disabilities as a feature of everyday life for average Americans, and when we do it is pretty sanitized.

The authors of these articles appear to argue that all manner of disabilities should be woven into the tapestry of American history as we teach it in classrooms. For example, Baynton would have us highlight disability as a feature of the rationale that led to various minority groups being oppressed (i.e.: “the impaired intelligence of African Americans made them incapable of equality with other Americans”) to help our students see the manner in which disability is a component of demonization. It is easy to see that there are ways to incorporate presentations of disability into history, for instance, Dorothea Dix’ reforms, the Eugenics movement, Immigration procedures and criterion at many points in history. It can also be incorporated into discussions of ways the federal government attempts to address disability like the passage of the ADA and the curing of diseases that used to cripple people physically. Lastly, it deserves consideration when discussing wars and the aftermath of those conflicts all of which caused portions of the population of the country to return physically disabled and emotionally scarred.