The Deaf History Reader by John Vickrey Van Cleve

AquaBlue · 03-14-2008, 04:16 PM

This is the next Deaf history book I am buying. It looks real good folks! Have you read it? If so, what did you think of it?

Anij · 03-14-2008, 06:38 PM

nope - haven't ever seen it before ...

Etoile · 03-19-2008, 05:35 AM

I never heard of it before either but I want it! Here's the Amazon description:

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The Deaf History Reader presents nine masterful chapters that bring together a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America. This collection features the finest scholarship from a noteworthy group of historians, including Reginald Boyd, Barry A. Crouch, Mary French, Brian H. Greenwald, Harlan Lane, Harry G. Lang, Kent R. Olney, Richard Pillard, Jill Hendricks Porco, Michael Reis, and volume editor John Vickrey Van Cleve.

The incisive articles collected here include an exploration of the genesis of the Deaf community and early evidence of the use of sign language; a comparison of a failed, oralist school for deaf students in Virginia to the success of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut; the development of Deaf consciousness among people who carried a dominant gene for deafness; a biographical sketch of Mary Ann Walworth Booth, an accomplished deaf woman who lived on the Western frontier; an account of Deaf agency in the Indiana Institution and the Evansville Day School; the early antecedents of mainstreaming deaf children despite the objections of their parents; a profile of Alexander Graham Bell that contrasts his support of eugenics to his defense of Deaf rights; the conflicting actions of supervisors of the Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf; and finally, the critical role played by deaf people in the Chicago Mission for the Deaf’s success in maintaining the Deaf community for more than five decades. The remarkably rich range of topics treated in The Deaf History Reader assure its future status as a standard resource for all Deaf scholars and students.

My DST 101 class just covered the failed Braidwood school in Virginia. I'd love to read more! I am going to see if it's on the shelves at the Gally bookstore when I get back from Spring Break.

soph51 · 04-19-2008, 09:19 AM

is this author, john van cleve used to teach Gallaudet?? I had a teacher had the last name of Van Cleve, but cannot remember his first name....

Etoile · 04-19-2008, 09:29 AM

Yes, it is the same person. He retired recently I believe.

I have bought this book but I haven't read it yet. I will read it after the semester ends. Summer is the only time to do personal reading!

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Etoile HOH terp Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Washington DC Posts: 897	Yes, it is the same person. He retired recently I believe. I have bought this book but I haven't read it yet. I will read it after the semester ends. Summer is the only time to do personal reading! __________________ "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." -Gandhi

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Anij Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 354	nope - haven't ever seen it before ...

04-19-2008, 09:19 AM	#4 (permalink)
soph51 PAHOH Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 41	is this author, john van cleve used to teach Gallaudet?? I had a teacher had the last name of Van Cleve, but cannot remember his first name....