#  MHS: The Constitution of Disability in the Early United States 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 27, 2017** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

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 **1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA**  



 

 



 

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 **Laurel Daen**, MHS-NEH Fellow

 Disability emerged in the Early Republic as a meaningful bureaucratic, legal, institutional, and cultural category. It was rooted in ideas about work, social worth, and economic independence and increasingly determined by the expert discourse of medicine. This project examines this development and considers its consequences for the new nation and its citizens.



 

 



 

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