Education: Results By Lesson
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Educating The Senses In The Second Great Awakening
An examination of how the earliest residential schools for the blind and for the deaf were established and maintained.
1810-1850
Government, Policy & Law
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Education Reform & Common Schools
A comparative examination of the educational curricula at antebellum residential schools for children with sensory or cognitive disabilities, as well as an analysis of the standard public curricula.
1810-1850
Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Mass Media, Culture & The Arts
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Dorothea Dix And "Lunacy Reform" In Massachusetts
Dorothea Dix and her case to the Legislature of Massachusetts on the conditions of people with cognitive and psychiatric disabilities in almshouses and prisons, the reactions of local communities and citizens, and the credibility of her reports.
1810-1860
Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
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Dorothea Dix And The Gendered Politics Of Advocacy
The rhetorical strategies used by Dorothea Dix in her memorials to the Massachusetts Legislature and to the United States Congress. Her projection of womanly moral authority and her relationship to existing gender norms.
1810-1860
Government, Policy & Law; Social Movements & Advocacy
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The Duties Of Government: Dix Vs. Pierce
The differences between state and federal responsibility for care of the indigent insane as illustrated by the views of Dorothea Dix and President Franklin Pierce.
1810-1860
Government, Policy & Law; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy
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Hearing Voices: Did Benevolence Listen?
The many voices, including those of patients, shaping lunacy reform in antebellum America.
1810-1860
Government, Policy & Law; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy
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Heathens Among Us: The Origins Of American Sign Language
An examination of the joint efforts of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Mason Cogswell, and Laurent Clerc that would lead to the creation of the American School for the Deaf.
1810-1860
Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Mass Media, Culture & The Arts; Social Movements & Advocacy
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