The New Disability History: American Perspectives
By Paul Longmore, Lauri Umansky
Below is an excerpt from a review by Brenda Jo Bruggemann
"The New Disability History: American Perspectives is a truly groundbreaking volume and is well-deserving of the praise heaped on its back cover: a "splendid collection" that is "not your father's old-time medical history--it's a broader, brilliant enterprise" (Walter Nugent) and "a cause for celebration" with "the insights popping off each page" (Martha Minow). Co-edited and introduced by Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky, two scholars of the new disability history themselves, this volume brings together a collection of fourteen essays about disability and disabled people in American history. The essays range from the early nineteenth century to the present, with "a majority of the pieces situated in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries," a period that "draws particular attention" because, as the editors document in their introduction, much of the work around disability in American history at large "point[s] to the half century from around 1880-1930 as a moment of major redefinition" for disabled lives, disability policy, and disability history (p. 22)." Read Full Review
Brenda Jo Bruggemann . "Review of Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, eds, The New Disability History: American Perspectives," H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, September, 2002. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=144171031912790.
