Disability In Early America

When:
Monday, Oct 18, 2021 5:30p -
6:30p

Where:
Online event
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
History, Virtual & Streaming

Event website:
masshist.org/disability

Our panel will explore how disability functioned in early America from personal, political, and cultural perspectives. What did disability mean in the early United States and how does it differ from our ideas about disability today? How did disability operate as a political and legal category in the colonial period, and how did it change in the early republic? What can material culture tell us about the lived experience of persons with disabilities in the era? This conversation will situate disability as a framework through which we can better understand the early lives of Americans and their often contested national and cultural identity.


Please note, this is a virtual event held on the video conference platform, Zoom. Registrants will receive a confirmation message with attendance information.

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