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Deaf heritage : a narrative history of deaf America / Jack R. Gannon ; edited by Jane Butler and Laura-Jean Gilbert ; layout by Rosalyn L. Gannon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gannon, Jack R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deaf people--United States--History.
- Deaf people.
- Deafness--history.
- History.
- United States.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Deafness--history.
- United States.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 483 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Now with a new preface, Jack R. Gannon's 17-chapter montage of artifacts and information that forms an utterly fascinating record from the early nineteenth century to the time of its original publication in 1981, the first story of the Deaf American experience from a Deaf perspective.
- Contents:
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface to 2011 edition
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Prologue : a journey begins
- Chronology
- The early years
- The 1880s
- The1890s
- Artists
- The 1900s
- The 1910s
- The 1920s
- Humor
- The 1930s
- The 1940s
- Publications of the deaf
- The 1950s
- Sports
- The 1960s
- American sign language : our natural language
- The 1970s
- The National Association of the Deaf.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Silver Spring, Md. : National Association of the Deaf, 1981.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-462) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781563685149
- 1563685140
- 9781563685156
- 1563685159
- OCLC:
- 727705019
- Publisher Number:
- 99968017763
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