A disability history of the United States

This book is the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it?s a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical repositioning of US history. By doing so, the book casts new light on familiar stories, such as slavery and immigration, while breaking ground about the ties between nativism and oralism in the late nineteenth century and the role of ableism in the development of democracy