Disability History-focused Podcast: "The Backstory"

Just this morning Dr. Halloran sent me an email to a podcast from "The Backstory," whose most recent episode focuses on a number of aspects of disability history that we've studied this semester: "freak shows," immigration, deaf education and the struggle between oralism vs. manualism, and the intersection of slavery and disability.

In those segments you'll hear from some prominent scholars we've read this semester, notably Douglas Baynton and Dea Boster.

The podcast also has some segments on topics we've not talked about, such as the Gallaudet University protests that led that institution to appoints its first ever deaf president, as well as pre-ADA protests in San Francisco that helped pave the way for disability rights legislation on the federal level.

You can listen to the whole thing here:


If you'd like to check out this episode's individual segments, transcripts, and other materials, you can find them here.