REPAIR Case Study Catalog
This catalog of case studies emphasizes the diversity of sites significant in U.S. disability history. Case study subjects range from the Minnesota State Fair, where eugenic themes were woven through home economics exhibits, to the Milwaukee Ordnance Plant, where Deaf women worked on the home front during World War II.
Guidance For Opening a Case Study
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Tags
- AAPI history
- Accessibility
- Activist
- Architecture/design
- Arts
- Assistive devices
- Black history
- Carceral
- Care webs
- Children's history
- Cognitive disability
- Deafness
- Developmental disability
- Disability rights
- Educational
- Eugenics
- Immigration history
- Incarceration
- Indigenous history
- Industrial
- Intersectionality
- LGBT+ history
- Medical
- Mobility impairments
- Mutual aid
- Neurological disability
- Protest
- Psychiatry/mental illness
- Public
- REPAIR-generated
- Recreation
- Social
- Student-generated
- Wartime
- Women's history
Edna Larrabee: Pathologizing Homosexuality at the Shakopee State Reformatory for Women and St. Peter State Hospital
Edna considered herself to be “a true homosexual.”
Faribault School for the Feeble-Minded
First state-funded institution that provided for the care and training of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Fergus Falls State Hospital
A 130-year-old vacant state hospital leaving the community of Fergus Falls, Minnesota divided on the fate of the historic structure
