Deaf History Reader

Name: Deaf History Reader
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ISBN: 9781563683596

ISBN-10: 1563683598

ISBN-13: 9781563683596

Edition: 2007

Authors: John Vickrey Van Cleve

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The Deaf History Readerpresents nine masterful chapters that bring together a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America. This collection features the finest scholarship from a noteworthy group of historians, including Reginald Boyd, Barry A. Crouch, Mary French, Brian H. Greenwald, Harlan Lane, Harry G. Lang, Kent R. Olney, Richard Pillard, Jill Hendricks Porco, Michael Reis, and volume editor John Vickrey Van Cleve. The incisive articles collected here include an exploration of the genesis of the Deaf community and early evidence of the use of sign language; a comparison of a failed, oralist school for deaf students in Virginia to the success of the American…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface



Genesis of a Community: The American Deaf Experience in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries




Hearing with the Eye: The Rise of Deaf Education in the United States




Origins of the American Deaf-World: Assimilating and Differentiating Societies and Their Relation to Genetic Patterning




Mary Ann Walworth Booth




Tale of Two Schools: The Indiana Institution and the Evansville Day School, 1879-1912




The Academic Integration of Deaf Children: A Historical Perspective




Taking Stock: Alexander Graham Bell and Eugenics, 1883-1922




Deaf Autonomy and Deaf Dependence: The Early Years of the Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf




The Chicago Mission for the Deaf



Contributors


Index