All posts tagged "deafness"
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5.8KUncategorizedRosewater, Bezoar Stone and Unicorn Horn: Seven Colonial Remedies
There was no shortage of illness in colonial New England and no shortage of colonial remedies. Our forebears left records of suffering...
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30.9K7MassachusettsThe Deaf Vineyarders Who Talked With Their Hands
During the 19th century, deaf Vineyarders made up a disproportionate number of people born on the island in southeastern Massachusetts. One in...
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24.1K15ConnecticutHelen Keller, Not Quite the Nice Lady Who Campaigned for Peace
Helen Keller in the winter of 1913 sent $87 to help immigrant textile workers on strike in Little Falls, N.Y. She was...
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11.6K8ConnecticutAlice Cogswell Changed the World for Deaf People
Alice Cogswell was a precocious little girl from Hartford, Conn. She was just nine years old in 1814 when she met her...
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