Swiss Paraplegic Athletes: How Para-Athletics in Switzerland Addresses Urban Disability.

October 31, 2023.Reading time 35 minutes.

This is the fifth installment to our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability, an exploration of the role cities and their residents have played in the expansions of disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. By Dan Holland Sport has long been the leading edge of social […]

The UK, UPIAS, and Transatlantic Disability Rights

October 24, 2023.Reading time 15 minutes.

This is the fourth installment to our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability, an exploration of the role cities and their residents have played in the expansions of disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. By Lisa Varty As a disabled person myself, I have an interest […]

The History of Disability Rights in Washington, DC

October 17, 2023.Reading time 32 minutes.

This is the third installment of our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability, an exploration of the role cities and their residents have played in the expansion of disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. By Patricia Chadwick Disability history is woven throughout the history of civil […]

Announcing the Winner of the Seventh Annual UHA/The Metropole Grad Student Blogging Contest

October 11, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

In order to further the ability of emerging historians to use online platforms to teach beyond the classroom, market scholarship, and promote the enduring value of the humanities, The Metropole/UHA established the Graduate Student Blogging Contest in 2017. This year, our theme was Stumble; we asked students to submit pieces about efforts in urbanism that have stumbled […]

Historicizing Disability and the City

October 10, 2023.Reading time 18 minutes.

By Nate Holdren This is the second post in our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. In 1966, attorney and disability activist Jacobus tenBroek published “The Right to Live in the World.” The brilliant California Law Review article ranges widely in its […]

Fighting for Rights: An Overview of Urban Disability

October 3, 2023.Reading time 48 minutes.

This is the first post in our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability focusing on the role of cities in fostering disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. In her 2020 memoir Being Huemann, pioneering disability rights activist Judith Heumann recounted her adolescent experiences in New York […]