history of the blind: References & Edit History
Additional Reading
Works on the blind from the 20th and 21st centuries include Gabriel Farrell, The Story of Blindness (1956); Richard Slayton French, From Homer to Helen Keller: A Social and Educational Study of the Blind (1932); Berthold Lowenfeld, The Changing Status of the Blind: From Separation to Integration (1975); Michael E. Monbeck, The Meaning of Blindness: Attitudes Toward Blindness and Blind People (1973); Francis A. Koestler, The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness in America (1976); Ronald J. Ferguson, We Know Who We Are: A History of the Blind in Challenging Educational and Socially Constructed Policies: A Study in Policy Archeology (2001); Ernest Freeberg, The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language (2001); and Floyd Matson, Walking Alone and Marching Together: A History of the Organized Blind Movement in the United States, 1940β1990 (1990).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media added. | Jun 27, 2025 | ||
| Added images of Helen Keller, John Milton, Louis Braille, and the Braille system. | Feb 11, 2015 | ||
| New article added. | Nov 18, 2014 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Nov 18, 2014 |