Kim E Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim E Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim E |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Green Bay |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1256-9435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions, Andrew J. Hogan
The Radical Lives of Helen Keller
A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating story of her vivid political life—particularly her interest in radicalism and anti-capitalist activism—has been largely overwhelmed by the sentimentalized story of her as a young deaf-blind girl. Keller had many lives indeed. Best known for …
Incompetent and insane: Labor, ability, and citizenship in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States
This article uses two examples from US history – competency hearings and asylum labor from Wisconsin in the late nineteenth- and early-twentieth century United States – to examine how ability, labor, and citizenship ideologies are enforced and created. Both are sites in which individuals are assumed to lack ability and labor is a tool of assessment and cure. I argue that central to both citizenship and ability were historically defined standards …
Dr. Anna B. Ott, Patient #1763: The Messiness of Authority, Diagnosis, Gender, and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century America
In 1873 George Ott committed his wife Dr. Anna B. Ott, a physician with a nearly twenty-year practice, to the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane. She remained there until her death in 1893. By diagnosing Ott with mania, state hospital physicians created and reinforced geographical boundaries on her daily activities, lessened her already limited legal rights, restricted her future, and rewrote her past. Despite wealth, whiteness, and a profes…
Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
Written for a popular audience, this biography of Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921–2009) explores how an intelligent, talented woman ambitious to make a difference in the world forged a life while being female in an influential U.S. political family that anticipated a public life only of its male members. As the author Eileen McNamara writes, “breaking barriers was for Kennedy men, not Kennedy women” (p. xxi). McNamara is a beautiful writer who groun…
The Oxford Handbook of Disability History
This Handbook brings together twenty-nine authors from around the world, each expert in a different area within the history of disability. This collection of new and original essays forms a benchmark in a field of historical inquiry that has been growing and maturing over the last thirty years. It is the first book to gather critical essays that incorporate studies from South and East Asia, eastern and western Europe, Australia, North America, an…
Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850-1979
Childhood not only occupies its own chronological space in the lives of individuals, but also is a period of nebulous legal, familial, medical, and educational status. In Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850–1979, editors Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale have compiled an impressive array of essays analyzing the experiences of disabled children in Western nations that span a nearly one-hundred-and-thirty-year period. Including a wide variety of na…
Memorializing FDR
Approximately seventy-five people gathered at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial on the Washington Mall in late February 1997. Their banners read “DON'T HIDE FDR'S SOURCE OF STRENGTH” and spelled out “Truth” in braille. Activists of all political stripes, embodying a variety of disabilities and involved in a multitude of other interests, protested the soon-to-be dedicated memorial's failure to depict fdr in his wheelchair. I. King Jordan, who…
Using Biography to Teach Disability History
I love reading biography. As a kid, I checked out nearly every biography in the basement children's section of my small local Carnegie library. As a professional historian, biographies are my staple when I do not want to “work” but feel obliged to do so. A good (auto)biography satisfies my inner gossip, carries me along with a strong narrative, and connects me with a specific historical individual, while embedding me within a larger historical co…
The Southern Ties of Helen Keller
THOUGH HELEN KELLER LEFT HER PARENTS' HOME IN TUSCUMBIA, Alabama, at the young age of eight, the culture, people, and sensory adventures of her native state were essential to her outlook throughout her life. The deaf-blind activist, author, and world traveler, born in 1880, considered Ivy Green, her family's Tuscumbia home, as her own. Beginning in her lifetime and continuing today, Tuscumbia and Alabama have similarly regarded her as their own--…
What's a Patriotic Man to Do: Patriotic Masculinities of the Post–WWI Red Scare
Patriotism is an ideology, like masculinity, that posits specific behaviors and beliefs as best for a nation and an individual. This article examines three forms of masculine patriotism promoted in the crisis of the post-World War I Red Scare-the antiradical heroism of Ole Hanson, the postwar militarism of the American Legion, and the laborer wistfully proposed by manufacturing organizations. These models drew from the wartime emphasis on male so…
The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl
Journal Article The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl, and The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language Get access Kim Nielsen Kim Nielsen University of WisconsinGreen Bay, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Pages 212–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/2700818 Publishe…
North American Labor History Conference
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
Written for a popular audience, this biography of Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921–2009) explores how an intelligent, talented woman ambitious to make a difference in the world forged a life while being female in an influential U.S. political family that anticipated a public life only of its male members. As the author Eileen McNamara writes, “breaking barriers was for Kennedy men, not Kennedy women” (p. xxi). McNamara is a beautiful writer who groun…
North American Labor History Conference
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl
Journal Article The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl, and The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language Get access Kim Nielsen Kim Nielsen University of WisconsinGreen Bay, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Pages 212–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/2700818 Publishe…
What's a Patriotic Man to Do: Patriotic Masculinities of the Post–WWI Red Scare
Patriotism is an ideology, like masculinity, that posits specific behaviors and beliefs as best for a nation and an individual. This article examines three forms of masculine patriotism promoted in the crisis of the post-World War I Red Scare-the antiradical heroism of Ole Hanson, the postwar militarism of the American Legion, and the laborer wistfully proposed by manufacturing organizations. These models drew from the wartime emphasis on male so…
The Southern Ties of Helen Keller
THOUGH HELEN KELLER LEFT HER PARENTS' HOME IN TUSCUMBIA, Alabama, at the young age of eight, the culture, people, and sensory adventures of her native state were essential to her outlook throughout her life. The deaf-blind activist, author, and world traveler, born in 1880, considered Ivy Green, her family's Tuscumbia home, as her own. Beginning in her lifetime and continuing today, Tuscumbia and Alabama have similarly regarded her as their own--…
Using Biography to Teach Disability History
I love reading biography. As a kid, I checked out nearly every biography in the basement children's section of my small local Carnegie library. As a professional historian, biographies are my staple when I do not want to “work” but feel obliged to do so. A good (auto)biography satisfies my inner gossip, carries me along with a strong narrative, and connects me with a specific historical individual, while embedding me within a larger historical co…
Memorializing FDR
Approximately seventy-five people gathered at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial on the Washington Mall in late February 1997. Their banners read “DON'T HIDE FDR'S SOURCE OF STRENGTH” and spelled out “Truth” in braille. Activists of all political stripes, embodying a variety of disabilities and involved in a multitude of other interests, protested the soon-to-be dedicated memorial's failure to depict fdr in his wheelchair. I. King Jordan, who…
Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850-1979
Childhood not only occupies its own chronological space in the lives of individuals, but also is a period of nebulous legal, familial, medical, and educational status. In Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850–1979, editors Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale have compiled an impressive array of essays analyzing the experiences of disabled children in Western nations that span a nearly one-hundred-and-thirty-year period. Including a wide variety of na…
The Oxford Handbook of Disability History
This Handbook brings together twenty-nine authors from around the world, each expert in a different area within the history of disability. This collection of new and original essays forms a benchmark in a field of historical inquiry that has been growing and maturing over the last thirty years. It is the first book to gather critical essays that incorporate studies from South and East Asia, eastern and western Europe, Australia, North America, an…
Incompetent and insane: Labor, ability, and citizenship in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States
This article uses two examples from US history – competency hearings and asylum labor from Wisconsin in the late nineteenth- and early-twentieth century United States – to examine how ability, labor, and citizenship ideologies are enforced and created. Both are sites in which individuals are assumed to lack ability and labor is a tool of assessment and cure. I argue that central to both citizenship and ability were historically defined standards …
Dr. Anna B. Ott, Patient #1763: The Messiness of Authority, Diagnosis, Gender, and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century America
In 1873 George Ott committed his wife Dr. Anna B. Ott, a physician with a nearly twenty-year practice, to the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane. She remained there until her death in 1893. By diagnosing Ott with mania, state hospital physicians created and reinforced geographical boundaries on her daily activities, lessened her already limited legal rights, restricted her future, and rewrote her past. Despite wealth, whiteness, and a profes…
Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
Written for a popular audience, this biography of Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921–2009) explores how an intelligent, talented woman ambitious to make a difference in the world forged a life while being female in an influential U.S. political family that anticipated a public life only of its male members. As the author Eileen McNamara writes, “breaking barriers was for Kennedy men, not Kennedy women” (p. xxi). McNamara is a beautiful writer who groun…
The Radical Lives of Helen Keller
A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating story of her vivid political life—particularly her interest in radicalism and anti-capitalist activism—has been largely overwhelmed by the sentimentalized story of her as a young deaf-blind girl. Keller had many lives indeed. Best known for …
Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions, Andrew J. Hogan
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