Lafayette Square - within earshot of where the U.S. president lives and works - has been reclaimed by demonstrators from dozens of social movements for over 100 years.

As a teenager and young woman, Beulah Brunelle moved from one carceral landscape - a Native boarding school - to another.

Edna considered herself to be “a true homosexual.”

Reformatory staff considered Mildred to be the “typical institution type, quiet, well behaved in presence of officers, is sly and will try to get by the rules.”

Marie Carey, incarcerated at the reformatory in 1935, observed that “her reactions are so contrary to that of any other girl.”

"Reforming" inmates to make them "fit" into society.

From 1979-84, a group of queer women, many of them disabled, created a community that prioritized autonomy, care, and accessibility.

Home Economics Meets Eugenics at the Minnesota State Fair

The importance of cross-cultural care and representation

John Eliot is remembered as an seventeenth-century Puritan evangelist. Who remembers his son, Benjamin?

First state-funded institution that provided for the care and training of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Disabled women were an important part of the war effort on the American Home Front, and deaf women were the ideal workers.

Eagle Tower is a panoramic, sightseeing tower located in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wisconsin. The tower was first built in 1914 with the intent of creating breathtaking views of Lake Michigan and the surrounding Michigan Islands. The tower was also used as a fire watching station with a telephone line connected to the park manager’s house.

The Progressive Era's preoccupation with group organizing and economic class shaped the history of the first Deaf social club in the U.S.

A 130-year-old vacant state hospital leaving the community of Fergus Falls, Minnesota divided on the fate of the historic structure

Beloit College was founded in 1846, which was a couple years prior to the territory of Wisconsin becoming a state. Even today, the college remains within its own jurisdiction often referred to as the “Beloit Bubble.”

Historic Eurocentric architecture directly reflects a campus' image and has a debilitating effect for those seeking higher education.

Disabled veterans after the U.S. Civil War

Theatre made by and for disabled artists