FROM THE EDITOR
Disability History
Carl R. Weinberg
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FOREWORD
Teaching Disability History
Daniel J. Wilson
ARTICLES
Making Disability an Essential Part of American History
Paul K. Longmore
"Nothing About Us Without Us": Disability Rights in America
Richard K. Scotch
Creating Group Identity: Disabled Veterans and American Government
David Gerber
(Extraordinary) Bodies of Knowledge: Recent Scholarship in American Disability History
Full Bibliography
Susan Burch
TEACHING RESOURCES
"No Defectives Need Apply": Disability and Immigration
Daniel J. Wilson
Using Biography to Teach Disability History
Kim E. Nielsen
Additional Resources:
- Helen Keller documents
- Harriet McBryde Johnson documents
WEB RESOURCES
Disability History Online
Penny L. Richards
ON THE COVER
Baker and Johnston Photo Studios, Amputation of Right Thigh (1886). (Courtesy of Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine,
Washington, D.C.)
Corporal Edward Scott served with K Company of the Tenth U.S. Cavalry, one of the famed "Buffalo Soldier" units of the U.S. Army. In the spring of 1886, his unit pursued Apache leader Geronimo, who led American soldiers on a chase through the Sonoran Desert in Mexico. On May 3, Scott was wounded by an Apache rifleman in a firefight near the Sierra Pinito. Five days later, an army doctor amputated most of Scott's right leg. Having served for over eight years in both the Tenth and Ninth Cavalries, thirty-year-old Scott soon moved into the Soldiers' Home, a federally funded institution for disabled veterans. Scott himself selected this photo for official Army records. It conveys the sense of dignity that people with disabilities have fought to maintain.
