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    Teaching Disability History Created Friday, October 18 2024, 15:54 UTC

    Absolutely. Rich's resources are always amazing!

    "Infusing Disability History into the Classroom," by   Rich Cairn  and Graham Warder and the Reform to Equal Rights K-12: Disability History Curriculum.

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    Teaching Disability History Created Friday, October 18 2024, 15:52 UTC

    I had forgotten about this. Thank you!

    Wow! This page is a great resource! You could consider linking to the more narrow Library of Congress Disability Employment Awareness Month, which has a research guide among other resources. 

    A sign language interpreter and judge stand in the jury box signing with a juror.
    Detail of "Deaf Juror", February 17, 1984. Colored pencil, pastel, graphite, and porous point pen on ochre paper. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00) LC-DIG-ppmsca-50997 © Marilyn Church. Gift of the family of Marilyn Church. Used by Permission of Marilyn Church.
     
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    Teaching Disability History Created Thursday, October 17 2024, 09:51 UTC

    Wow! This page is a great resource! You could consider linking to the more narrow Library of Congress Disability Employment Awareness Month, which has a research guide among other resources. 

    A sign language interpreter and judge stand in the jury box signing with a juror.
    Detail of "Deaf Juror", February 17, 1984. Colored pencil, pastel, graphite, and porous point pen on ochre paper. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00) LC-DIG-ppmsca-50997 © Marilyn Church. Gift of the family of Marilyn Church. Used by Permission of Marilyn Church.
     

    Disability History Week in West Virginia

    Recent legislation (2024) requires disability history to be incorporated in the curricula of West Virginia Schools during Disability History Week. As longtime advocates can attest, this is HUGE. 

    The West Virginia Department of Education has assembled a list of state and national resources: Disability History Week - West Virginia Department of Education (wvde.us)

    If you could add a resource to this list, what would you add?

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    Teaching Disability History Created Wednesday, October 16 2024, 13:57 UTC

    Recent legislation (2024) requires disability history to be incorporated in the curricula of West Virginia Schools during Disability History Week. As longtime advocates can attest, this is HUGE. 

    The West Virginia Department of Education has assembled a list of state and national resources: Disability History Week - West Virginia Department of Education (wvde.us)

    If you could add a resource to this list, what would you add?

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    Teaching Disability History Created Tuesday, September 03 2024, 11:25 UTC

    5 Ways to Teach Disability History in Social Studies Class

    Kara Newhouse - KQED - Mind/Shift

    A practical, primary source-based approach to integrate disability history into the curriculum, featuring the Reform to Equal Right: K-12 Disability History Curriculum. 

    Old photographs and forms, including a marriage certificate are piled on a desk top.   Social Studies/History    Special Education    Disability    Disability History    Curriculum    Culturally Relevant Pedagogy    Inclusion    Access  

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    Teaching Disability History Created Monday, July 15 2024, 18:29 UTC

    Here's the link to the IMDb list   Alison Noyes  referenced: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls086184694/.

    I also thought members might be interested in perusing Richard III resources from the Library.

    Julie, thank you for extending this playbill cover to these other resources, including the many other images in Cripping Richard III: What Disabled Actors Bring to the Role. I notice that the website INDb, which appears to allow users to create lists that become publicly visible, has a list created in 2021 of close to 150 disabled actors with links to their best known work. 

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    Teaching Disability History Created Monday, July 15 2024, 17:00 UTC

    Julie, thank you for extending this playbill cover to these other resources, including the many other images in Cripping Richard III: What Disabled Actors Bring to the Role. I notice that the website INDb, which appears to allow users to create lists that become publicly visible, has a list created in 2021 of close to 150 disabled actors with links to their best known work. 

    Disabled Actors in Shakespeare's Richard III

    Program for Richard III

    I originally posted this image in a comment to an Inquiry Starter Set album--Can a Woman Play Hamlet?--created by  Mary Alice Anderson  in The Arts & Primary Sources group. Not long after,  Alison Noyes  suggested to post it in this group as well.

    The image comes from the cover of the program bill of a Winter 2024 production at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater that featured Tony Award nominee, Paralympic champion, and bilateral above-knee amputee Katy Sullivan in the title role. 

    After doing a little digging, I discovered a rich history of disabled actors in this role. Check out this article from American Theater. 

    Next, take a dive into the history of disability in the times of Richard III in this podcast with Jefferey R. Wilson: Disability, Deformity, and being handicapped in Shakespeare's lifetime. Wilson is the author of Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History.

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    Teaching Disability History Created Friday, July 12 2024, 19:32 UTC

    Program for Richard III

    I originally posted this image in a comment to an Inquiry Starter Set album--Can a Woman Play Hamlet?--created by  Mary Alice Anderson  in The Arts & Primary Sources group. Not long after,  Alison Noyes  suggested to post it in this group as well.

    The image comes from the cover of the program bill of a Winter 2024 production at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater that featured Tony Award nominee, Paralympic champion, and bilateral above-knee amputee Katy Sullivan in the title role. 

    After doing a little digging, I discovered a rich history of disabled actors in this role. Check out this article from American Theater. 

    Next, take a dive into the history of disability in the times of Richard III in this podcast with Jefferey R. Wilson: Disability, Deformity, and being handicapped in Shakespeare's lifetime. Wilson is the author of Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History.

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