5 Top history books like The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language by Ernest Freeberg

Cover of The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language by Ernest Freeberg

The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

By: Ernest Freeberg

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In the mid-nineteenth century, Laura Bridgman, a young child from New Hampshire, became one of the …

If you liked the history plot in The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language by Ernest Freeberg , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The New Disability History: American Perspectives by Lauri Umansky, Richard P. Bentall

1. The New Disability History: American Perspectives

By: Lauri Umansky , Richard P. Bentall

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates… read more

Similar categories in Lauri Umansky's The New Disability History: American Perspectives book and Ernest Freeberg's The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

  • history
Cover of A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen

2. A Disability History of the United States

By: Kim E. Nielsen

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability… read more

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3. True Biz

By: Sara Nović

4.08

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

TRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk Tr… read more

Similar categories in Sara Nović's True Biz book and Ernest Freeberg's The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

"No one is comforted by salad."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

Cover of Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North by Sarah Handley-Cousins

4. Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North

By: Sarah Handley-Cousins

4.46

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Handley-Cousins's Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North book and Ernest Freeberg's The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

  • history
Cover of No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s by Sarah F. Rose

5. No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s

By: Sarah F. Rose

4.23

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities … read more

Similar categories in Sarah F. Rose's No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s book and Ernest Freeberg's The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

  • history
Cover of The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language by Ernest Freeberg

6. The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

By: Ernest Freeberg

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In the mid-nineteenth century, Laura Bridgman, a young child from New Hampshire, became one of the … read more

Similar categories in Ernest Freeberg's The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language book and Ernest Freeberg's The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

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  • biography

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