Disability and the Practice of Public History
An Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11665333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Ott (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 9-24 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Public Historian (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3433 • E-ISSN: 1533-8576 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/tph.2005.27.2.9 |
| PMID | 16189920 |
| OpenAlex | W2071732659 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Museums, exhibitions, and public history have long engaged with the subject matter of disability. Shared social conventions and exhibition traditions about people with disabilities--the common stereotypes of people as persevering heroes or objects of pity--have often led to skewed and inaccurate historical presentations. The medical model of disability, equally strong in framing disability, has also reduced the range of possibilities for including content for the public. More recently, greater understanding of diversity and of the importance of interpreting the history of all people has begun to push inclusion beyond simple issues into content
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Diversity (politics · Exhibition · Framing (construction · Inclusion (mineral · Media studies · Pedagogy · Pity · Public history · Social science · Sociology · Subject matter · Anthropology · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · History of Education in Spain · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |