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. By Dan Holland Sport has long been the leading edge of social change. Jackie Robinson played his first baseball game in the majors seven years […]

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. By Lisa Varty As a disabled person myself, I have an interest in the history of disability rights in the United Kingdom. Despite the efforts […]

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. By Patricia Chadwick Disability history is woven throughout the history of civil rights, institutions, medicine, eugenics, technology, war, and pandemics. The study of the history […]

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 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 eighty pages, canvassing as it does the great many factors that contribute to […]

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. In her 2020 memoir Being Huemann, pioneering disability rights activist Judith Heumann recounted her adolescent experiences in New York City’s public schools. She was part of the Health Conservation 21, a program […]