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offers lesson plans and essays on "disability studies" -- the examination of disability as a social, cultural, and political phenomenon. Among the topics: a history of deaf education, efforts to reform poorhouses in the 1840s and 1850s, P.T. Barnum and "freak shows," and conscientious objectors during World War II who exposed horrific conditions at state institutions, and an introduction to disability studies. (Department of Education)
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