Introduction : Disability history : from the margins to the mainstream / Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky
Disability and the justification of inequality in American history / Douglas C. Baynton
"Speech has an extraordinary humanizing power" : Horace Mann and the problem of nineteenth-century American deaf education / R.A.R. Edwards
"This unnatural and fratricidal strife" : a family's negotiation of the Civil War, deafness, and independence / Hannah Joyner
"Trying to idle" : work and disability in The diary of Alice James / Natalie A. Dykstra
A pupil and a patient : hospital-schools in progressive America / Brad Byrom
Cold charity : manhood, brotherhood, and the transformation of disability, 1870-1900 / John Williams-Searle
The outlook of The problem and the problem with the Outlook : two advocacy journals reinvent blind people in turn-of-the-century America / Catherine J. Kudlick
Reading between the signs : defending deaf culture in early twentieth-century America / Susan Burch
Medicine, bureaucracy, and social welfare : the politics of disability compensation for American veterans of World War I / K. Walter Hickel
Helen Keller and the politics of civic fitness / Kim Nielsen
Martyred mothers and merciful fathers : exploring disability and motherhood in the lives of Jerome Greenfield and Raymond Repouille / Janice A. Brockley
Blind and enlightened : the contested origins of the egalitarian politics of the Blinded Veterans Association / David A. Gerber
Seeing the disabled : visual rhetorics of disability in popular photography / Rosemarie Garland Thomson
American disability policy in the twentieth century / Richard K. Scotch.