Tag: Americans with Disabilities Act

by Editorial Board November 5, 2019 1

October 2019

Remembering The Ad Hoc Committee for Handicapped Access (AHCHA): Against Erasure of Disability History At the University Of Chicago

The irony of placing a reminder of disability history in a stairwell does not escape me nor does it surprise me.

by Nathan Wuertenberg August 11, 2017 4

August 2017 Marginalized Voices

The Blind Historian, and Other Fables

I wouldn’t be a historian if it weren’t for my disability. At the age of 12 I was diagnosed with a degenerative condition known as retinitis pigmentosa, and I may, at some unknown date in the future, be totally blind.