History Book Talk: Ordinary Lives - Recovering Deaf Social History Through the American Census ( Nystrom and Edwards)
By College of Liberal Arts, Core Humanities, Department of History, University Libraries
About this event
In this free public lecture, Eric Nystrom (University of Nevada, Reno) and Rebecca A. R. Edwards (Rochester Institute of Technology) will present their new book, Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History Through the American Census (published 2024, University of Massachusetts Press). For this project, they employed the methods of social history, such as the use of digital history techniques and often-ignored sources like census records to recover the lived experiences of everyday deaf people in late nineteenth century America. Ordinary Lives captures the stories of deaf women and men, both Black and white, describing their family lives, networks of support, educational experiences, and successes and hardships. In this pioneering “deaf social history,” Nystrom and Edward reconstruct the biographies of a wider range of deaf individuals to tell a richer, more nuanced, and more inclusive history of the larger American deaf community.
This History Book Talk is Free and Open to the Public
and supported by the Department of History and University Libraries
Additional information
- Attendance type: In person
- Cost: Free
- Event type: Lectures & Seminars