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

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano visited the new Museum of Disability History, a one-of-a-kind cultural institution at The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Graham Warder, associate professor and chair of the Keene State History Department, will direct the grant-funded project. Keene State College has been awarded a nearly $100,000 Library of Congress ...

A 23-panel display detailing the history of individuals with disabilities from medical, moral and social minority viewpoints will be available for public viewing at Takena Hall on the Linn-Benton ...

Today, marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) which is also known as world disability day. Every year on December 3rd, the world pauses, just for a moment, to reflect, to ...