Primary Source Learning: Disability History

Unit & lesson plans

• Teaching Now: Learning About (Dis)ability in History- An Inquiry for Elementary Students
• Learning from the Source: (Dis)ability History
• How Disability Activists Created Change
• Ancient Rome’s Veterans with Disabilities: Roman Accounts and U.S. Veteran Comparisons

Activities

• Accessibility Aids
• Child Labor in the Early 1900s
• Disabled Newsies
• League of the Physically Handicapped’s Protests Against the WPA
• Modern Legislation for Disabled Workers
• “Ugly Laws” and Early 1900s Beggars
• World War I Rehabilitation
• World War II Workers with Disabilities

Library blog posts

• Americans with Disabilities Act 20th Anniversary Inside Adams
• Belva Lockwood and the “Legal Disabilities” of Early Women Lawyers In Custodia Legis
• Exploring Disability Concepts through Primary Sources on the Built Environment Teaching with the Library of Congress
• A Virtual Window into Deaf History Picture This
• World War I: Injured Veterans and the Disability Rights Movement Library of Congress Blog

Collections Spotlight: Disability Resources primary source sets & more