Deaf: Cultures and Communication, 1600 to the Present

Recommended Sources

Websites:

www.lifeprint.com
Fantastic ASL dictionary and lessons by Bill Vicars, a professor at California State University, Sacramento

https://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/deaf-sign-language

http://www.gallaudet.edu/museum/deaf-museums-and-exhibitions.html
 

Other Deaf exhibits and museums

https://dpan.tv/series/asl-music-videos
ASL music videos by the Deaf Professional Arts Network

http://dsdj.gallaudet.edu/
Deaf Studies Digital Journal, Gallaudet University

https://fromthehandsofquacks.com/posts/
From the Hands of Quacks Blog, curated by Jaipreet Virdi-Dhesi 
 

Books and Articles:

Baynton, Douglas C. Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Baynton, Douglas C., Jack R. Gannon, and Jean Lindquist Bergey. Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2007.

Burch, Susan. Signs of Resistance American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2002.

Callaway, Alison. Deaf Children in China. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2000.

Christiansen, John B., and Sharon N. Barnartt. Deaf President Now!: The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1995.

Greenwald, Brian H., and Joseph J. Murray. In Our Own Hands: Essays in Deaf History, 1780-1970. 2016.

Greenwald, Brian H., and John V. Van Cleve. A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2008.

Groce, Nora Ellen. Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1985. 

Hochman, Brian. Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 

Ladd, Paddy. Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 2003.

Lane, Harlan L. When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf. New York: Random House, 1984.

Mauldin, Laura. Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Mudry, Albert, and Mara Mills, “The Early History of the Cochlear Implant: A Retrospective,” JAMA Otolaryngology, Head, and Neck Surgery 139, no. 5 (2013): 446-453.

Schuchman, John S. Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. 

Virdi-Dhesi, Jaipreet, “Curtis’s Cephaloscope: Deafness and the Making of Surgical Authority in London, 1816-1845,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87, no. 3 (2013): 347-77.

Virdi-Dhesi, Jaipreet, “Priority, Piracy, and Printed Directions: James Yearsley’s Patenting of the Artificial Tympanum,” Technology and Innovation 16, no. 2 (2014): 145-54.

Winefield, Richard. Never the Twain Shall Meet: Bell, Gallaudet, and the Communications Debate. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1987.