The New Disability History HISTORY OF ART/STYLE she had kept this knowledge

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The New Disability History HISTORY OF ART/STYLE she had kept this knowledgeDisability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification for citizenship to current controversies over access and reasonable accommodations, disability has been present, in penumbra if not in print, on virtually every page of American history. Yet historians have only recently begun the deep excavation necessary to retrieve lives shrouded in religious, then medical, and always deep seated