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How a Student Journalist Freed Thousands of Disabled People from Institutions
Plus an upcoming book talk and coverage in the Washington Post and Boston Globe
May 4
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Alex Green
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(Un)Hidden: Disability Histories and Our World
How a Student Journalist Freed Thousands of Disabled People from Institutions
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April 2025
"She has a right to learn stuff"
A mother's quest to uncover the origins of the IQ test her disabled daughter was required to take.
Apr 20
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Alex Green
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(Un)Hidden: Disability Histories and Our World
"She has a right to learn stuff"
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(Un)Hidden in the World
Two weeks with Walter E. Fernald's story in 2025 America
Apr 13
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Alex Green
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(Un)Hidden: Disability Histories and Our World
(Un)Hidden in the World
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March 2025
My New Book Hits the Shelves!
Can you help spread the word? "Enthralling. . . . A gripping intellectual history of a major societal sea change."--Publishers Weekly (starred review…
Mar 30
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Alex Green
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My New Book Hits the Shelves!
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The Haunting Origins of Robert F. Kennedy’s ‘Healing Farms’
America has a long history of enslaving disabled people and calling it treatment
Mar 23
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Alex Green
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The Haunting Origins of Robert F. Kennedy’s ‘Healing Farms’
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Actually, the Dead Do Care
What Mourning the Disabled Dead Can Tell the Living
Mar 16
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Alex Green
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Actually, the Dead Do Care
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How Can Non-Disabled People be Better Neighbors to Disabled People?
Ed Orzechowski and the stories of his disabled neighbors
Mar 2
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Alex Green
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How Can Non-Disabled People be Better Neighbors to Disabled People?
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February 2025
Will Doctors Step Up in Hard Times? History Weighs In.
Doctors side with the powerful, not their patients.
Feb 16
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Alex Green
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(Un)Hidden: Disability Histories and Our World
Will Doctors Step Up in Hard Times? History Weighs In.
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Announcing My New Book: "A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled"
Ten years in the making, an untold story of disability in America, and how it shapes our world today.
Feb 7
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Alex Green
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(Un)Hidden: Disability Histories and Our World
Announcing My New Book: "A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled"
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The Curious Case of Eugenic Pacifists
Readers Respond to “Nazi Ideals and the Disabled Inmates of Oregon's Fairview Home”
Feb 2
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Alex Green
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(Un)Hidden: Disability Histories and Our World
The Curious Case of Eugenic Pacifists
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January 2025
Nazi Ideals and the Disabled Inmates of Oregon's Fairview Home
The third and final installment of (Un)Hidden's series on disabled inmates who escaped from institutions
Jan 26
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Alex Green
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Nazi Ideals and the Disabled Inmates of Oregon's Fairview Home
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Important Comments from Readers and a Mention in "The Nation"
Two illuminating reader responses and an article about a very present-day crisis
Jan 19
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Alex Green
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Important Comments from Readers and a Mention in "The Nation"
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