Paul K Longmore
Biographic Data
| ID | 1024555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul K Longmore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul K |
| FAMILY NAME | Longmore |
| SIGNATURE | LONGMORE P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity
"Marshaling two decades' worth of painstaking research, Paul Longmore's book provides the first cultural history of the telethon, charting its rise and profiling the key figures--philanthropists, politicians, celebrities, corporate sponsors, and recipients--involved"
Making Disability an Essential Part of American History
One day in May 1935, six unemployed young adults demanded to see the director of New York's Emergency Relief Bureau. Told he was unavailable, they announced they would sit there until he met with them. Their eleven-day sit-in and their supporters' sidewalk picketing, followed by the trial of those picketers, drew extensive newspaper coverage. What makes these demonstrators historically significant is that they were protesting discrimination again…
Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington
Good English without Idiom or Tone: The Colonial Origins of American Speech
The interplay between modes of speech and the demographical, geographical, social, and political history of Britain's North American colonies of settlement influenced the linguistic evolution of colonial English speech. By the early to mid-eighteenth century, regional varieties of English emerged that were not only regionally comprehensible but perceived by many observers as homogeneous in contrast to the deep dialectical differences in Britain. …
A Philosophy of Handicap: The Origins of Randolph Bourne's Radicalism
Research Article| January 01 2006 “A Philosophy of Handicap”: The Origins of Randolph Bourne's Radicalism Paul K. Longmore; Paul K. Longmore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Paul Steven Miller Paul Steven Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 59–83. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-94-59 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mai…
Policy, Prejudice, and Reality: Two Case Studies of Physician-Assisted Suicide
The petitions of two quadriplegic ventilator users for doctoral-assisted suicide and the responses to them illustrate the issues that frequently appear in such cases and, therefore, the dangers of legalizing that practice. The courts, the media, and other observers failed to recognize or ignored the discriminatory elements of public policy, health-care delivery, and social services that make the lives of some people with disabilities unendurable;…
From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South
The antebellum South s economic dependence on slavery engendered a rigid social order in which a small number of privileged white men dominated African Americans, poor whites, women, and many people with disabilities. From Pity to Pride examines the experiences of a group of wealthy young men raised in the old South who also would have ruled over this closely regimented world had they not been deaf. Instead, the promise of status was gone, replac…
Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (review)
Reviewed by: Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics Paul K. Longmore (bio) Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics. Edited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm. New York: New York University Press, 2002. Pp. vi+359. $20. These essays are not about "cyborgs or bionic beings," nor do they explain prostheses as "merely metaphors" (p. 1). Rather, by locating such devices within the hi…
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
Foreword - Robert Dawidoff Introduction Part I: Analyses and Reconstructions 1. Disability Watch 2. The Life of Randolph Bourne and the Need for a History of Disabled People 3. Uncovering the Hidden History of Disabled People 4. The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History 5. The Disability Rights Moment: Activism in the 1970s and Beyond Part II: Images and Reflections 6. Film Revie…
The new disability history: American perspectives
A glimpse into the struggle of the disabled for identity and society's perception of the disabled traces the disabled's fight for rights from the antebellum era to present controversies over access.
Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950
Journal Article Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850–1950. By Robert M. Buchanan. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 1999. xviii, 214 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-56368-084-X.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1554, …
Disability Policy and Politics: Considering Consumer Influences
This historical case study of the League of the Physically Handicapped, a disability-rights activist group in Depression-era New York City, examines some of the ways in which people with disabilities have contested and endeavored to alter the public policies and social values that have affected their social identities and social careers. It also explores the interconnections among policies, values, and disabled and nondisabled identities. In addi…
George Washington: The Man Behind the Myths
The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History
Journal Article The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History Get access Paul K. Longmore, Paul K. Longmore professor of history San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Goldberger David Goldberger senior director at the Advisory Board Company, a health care research firm Washington, D.C. Search for other works by t…
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington
All Matters and Things Relating to Religion and Morality: The Virginia Burgesses' Committee for Religion, 1769 to 1775
Journal Article “All Matters and Things Relating to Religion and Morality”: The Virginia Burgesses' Committee for Religion, 1769 to 1775 Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore associate professor of of history San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 38, Issue 4, Autumn 1996, Pages 775–797, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/38.4.775 Published: 01 Oc…
War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicin Southern Biography Series
George Washington and American Constitutionalism
George Washington and American Constitutionalism. By Glenn A. Phelps. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. x, 245 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-7006-0564-9.) and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation. By Richard Norton Smith. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. xxii, 424 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-395-52442-3.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California Search for other works by thi…
Hollywood in the Age of Television
Journal Article Hollywood in the Age of Television. Ed. by Tino Balio. (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990. xii + 428 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-04-445837-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-04-445836-3.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 331–332, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079830…
A Great and Good Man: George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries
Preface Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: The Legacy: General Washington's Parting Advice Chapter 2: Retirement Abandoned: The Constitutional Convention Chapter 3: Answering the Call: The Election of a President Chapter 4: Meeting the People: Presidential Tours Chapter 5: The Second Retirement
George Washington: Cultural Biography and Collective Memory
The Invention of George Washington
A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America
Journal Article A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America. By John Vickrey Van Cleve and Barry A. Crouch. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 1989. xii + 212 pp. $14.95.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 681–682, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079260 P…
The First of Men: A Life of George Washington
The Invention of George Washington
The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History
Journal Article The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History Get access Paul K. Longmore, Paul K. Longmore professor of history San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Goldberger David Goldberger senior director at the Advisory Board Company, a health care research firm Washington, D.C. Search for other works by t…
A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America
Journal Article A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America. By John Vickrey Van Cleve and Barry A. Crouch. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 1989. xii + 212 pp. $14.95.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 681–682, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079260 P…
Uncovering the Hidden History of People with Disabilities
A Note on Language and the Social Identity of Disabled People
All Matters and Things Relating to Religion and Morality: The Virginia Burgesses' Committee for Religion, 1769 to 1775
Journal Article “All Matters and Things Relating to Religion and Morality”: The Virginia Burgesses' Committee for Religion, 1769 to 1775 Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore associate professor of of history San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 38, Issue 4, Autumn 1996, Pages 775–797, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/38.4.775 Published: 01 Oc…
Hollywood in the Age of Television
Journal Article Hollywood in the Age of Television. Ed. by Tino Balio. (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990. xii + 428 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-04-445837-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-04-445836-3.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 331–332, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079830…
George Washington and American Constitutionalism
George Washington and American Constitutionalism. By Glenn A. Phelps. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. x, 245 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-7006-0564-9.) and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation. By Richard Norton Smith. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. xxii, 424 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-395-52442-3.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California Search for other works by thi…
The Life of Randolph Bourne and the Need for a History of Disabled People
Good English without Idiom or Tone: The Colonial Origins of American Speech
The interplay between modes of speech and the demographical, geographical, social, and political history of Britain's North American colonies of settlement influenced the linguistic evolution of colonial English speech. By the early to mid-eighteenth century, regional varieties of English emerged that were not only regionally comprehensible but perceived by many observers as homogeneous in contrast to the deep dialectical differences in Britain. …
Policy, Prejudice, and Reality: Two Case Studies of Physician-Assisted Suicide
The petitions of two quadriplegic ventilator users for doctoral-assisted suicide and the responses to them illustrate the issues that frequently appear in such cases and, therefore, the dangers of legalizing that practice. The courts, the media, and other observers failed to recognize or ignored the discriminatory elements of public policy, health-care delivery, and social services that make the lives of some people with disabilities unendurable;…
Disability Policy and Politics: Considering Consumer Influences
This historical case study of the League of the Physically Handicapped, a disability-rights activist group in Depression-era New York City, examines some of the ways in which people with disabilities have contested and endeavored to alter the public policies and social values that have affected their social identities and social careers. It also explores the interconnections among policies, values, and disabled and nondisabled identities. In addi…
George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876-1986
Journal Article George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876–1986. By Karal Ann Marling. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. xv + 453 pp. $39.95 and The Invention of George Washington. By Paul K. Longmore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. x + 337 pp. $25.00 Get access Philander D. Chase Philander D. Chase Papers of George Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
The Enigma of George Washington: How did the Man Become the Myth
The Life of Randolph Bourne and the Need for a History of Disabled People
A Note on Language and the Social Identity of Disabled People
Uncovering the Hidden History of People with Disabilities
The Invention of George Washington
Good Show: George Washington Plays George Washington
George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876-1986
Journal Article George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876–1986. By Karal Ann Marling. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. xv + 453 pp. $39.95 and The Invention of George Washington. By Paul K. Longmore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. x + 337 pp. $25.00 Get access Philander D. Chase Philander D. Chase Papers of George Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
George Washington: Cultural Biography and Collective Memory
The Invention of George Washington
A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America
Journal Article A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America. By John Vickrey Van Cleve and Barry A. Crouch. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 1989. xii + 212 pp. $14.95.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 681–682, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079260 P…
The First of Men: A Life of George Washington
The Invention of George Washington
A Great and Good Man: George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries
Preface Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: The Legacy: General Washington's Parting Advice Chapter 2: Retirement Abandoned: The Constitutional Convention Chapter 3: Answering the Call: The Election of a President Chapter 4: Meeting the People: Presidential Tours Chapter 5: The Second Retirement
Hollywood in the Age of Television
Journal Article Hollywood in the Age of Television. Ed. by Tino Balio. (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990. xii + 428 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-04-445837-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-04-445836-3.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 331–332, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079830…
War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicin Southern Biography Series
George Washington and American Constitutionalism
George Washington and American Constitutionalism. By Glenn A. Phelps. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. x, 245 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-7006-0564-9.) and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation. By Richard Norton Smith. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. xxii, 424 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-395-52442-3.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California Search for other works by thi…
All Matters and Things Relating to Religion and Morality: The Virginia Burgesses' Committee for Religion, 1769 to 1775
Journal Article “All Matters and Things Relating to Religion and Morality”: The Virginia Burgesses' Committee for Religion, 1769 to 1775 Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore associate professor of of history San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 38, Issue 4, Autumn 1996, Pages 775–797, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/38.4.775 Published: 01 Oc…
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington
Disability Policy and Politics: Considering Consumer Influences
This historical case study of the League of the Physically Handicapped, a disability-rights activist group in Depression-era New York City, examines some of the ways in which people with disabilities have contested and endeavored to alter the public policies and social values that have affected their social identities and social careers. It also explores the interconnections among policies, values, and disabled and nondisabled identities. In addi…
George Washington: The Man Behind the Myths
The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History
Journal Article The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History Get access Paul K. Longmore, Paul K. Longmore professor of history San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Goldberger David Goldberger senior director at the Advisory Board Company, a health care research firm Washington, D.C. Search for other works by t…
The new disability history: American perspectives
A glimpse into the struggle of the disabled for identity and society's perception of the disabled traces the disabled's fight for rights from the antebellum era to present controversies over access.
Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950
Journal Article Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850–1950. By Robert M. Buchanan. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 1999. xviii, 214 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-56368-084-X.) Get access Paul K. Longmore Paul K. Longmore San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1554, …
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
Foreword - Robert Dawidoff Introduction Part I: Analyses and Reconstructions 1. Disability Watch 2. The Life of Randolph Bourne and the Need for a History of Disabled People 3. Uncovering the Hidden History of Disabled People 4. The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History 5. The Disability Rights Moment: Activism in the 1970s and Beyond Part II: Images and Reflections 6. Film Revie…
Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (review)
Reviewed by: Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics Paul K. Longmore (bio) Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics. Edited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm. New York: New York University Press, 2002. Pp. vi+359. $20. These essays are not about "cyborgs or bionic beings," nor do they explain prostheses as "merely metaphors" (p. 1). Rather, by locating such devices within the hi…
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