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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum depends on its collection to help us teach the lessons of the Holocaust and to stand as evidence of what happened for ages to come. Items that belonged to ...
By Rich Cairn, Director of the Emerging America Program, Collaborative for Educational Services, Northampton, MA Activists, historians, and teachers have been working for decades to incorporate Disability History into the K-12 curriculum. On June 26, ...
By Meghan Rinn, Archivist & Cataloger Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT Why sign up to exhibit yourself? It’s a question worth pondering when talking about 19th-century performers with disabilities. Better pay than that offered by other ...
By Dr. Graham Warder, Associate Professor of History, Keene State College, NH For Massachusetts teachers, the Disability History Museum just became more useful. With the announcement from the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education ...
By Laurie Block, DHM Director Recipe Readers, Spudnuts, & Braille: Seek and ye shall find is the motto today. We are excited to report, we found Fanny Farmer’s cookbook in Braille, thanks to Mike Hudson, ...
By Janna Zwerner Reverend Cecil A. Ivory, Sr., once a hidden figure in civil rights history, was formally honored on November 1, 2017, as one of the Freedom Walkway Local Heroes for Justice and Equality ...
By Laurie Block, DHM Director The 1960s. Civil Rights of PWD : Tracking down how and why the two posters in our image today were created, required digging out some federal legislative history. In 1965, ...
By Laurie Block, DHM Director At our Xmas season dinner table, the guests and host –ages 30-75– began discussing cook books, the ones we first owned. The quick table survey revealed that the groups’ mothers ...
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