DISABILITY HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES.

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Cross-listed: HIST 225 . Satisfies: a BACR for social sciences. Examines patterns of understanding and responding to human difference in American history, emphasizing disability as a label and lived experience. Provides a historical context for understanding and assessing contemporary issues facing disabled people. Familiarizes students with methods for the retrieval and engages them in critical examination of primary historical source material that influences how history is interpreted and understood.