Gallaudet University Library Guide to Deaf Biographies

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• The ABC-Clio Guide to the Disability Rights Movement. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1997. (Ready Reference 323.3 P44a 1997, at the Service Desk)
• Able Scientists--Disabled Persons: Biographical Sketches Illustrating Careers in the Sciences for Able Disabled Students (by S. Phyllis Stearner). Oakbrook, Ill.: John Racila Associates, 1984. (DEAF 920 S73a 1984)
• American Annals of the Deaf [and Dumb], various dates. (DEAF Periodicals)
• American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. (Ref. 920.073 A43 1999)
• Arnold on the Education of the Deaf: A Manual for Teachers, Book I: Historical Sketch (by Thomas Arnold, revised and re-written by A. Farrar). London: The National Institute for the Deaf, 1954. [Reprint of 1923 second edition, London: National College of Teachers of the Deaf.] (DEAF 371.3 A7a 1954)
• Beating the Breaks: Major League Ballplayers who Overcame Disabilities (by Rick Swaine). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 2004. (DEAF 920 S945 2004)
• Benefits of Education to the Deaf: A Centennial Address (by Edwin Allan Hodgson). New York: Fanwood Press, 1917. (DEAF 370.973 H6b 1917)
• Biographical Dictionary of American Educators (ed. by John F. Ohles). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. (Ref. 370.973 B5 1978)
• Black and Deaf in America: Are We That Different (by Ernest Hairston and Linwood Smith). Silver Spring, Md.: T.J. Publishers, 1983. (DEAF 305.8 H3b 1983)
• Blood Relations: the Rise & Fall of the du Ponts of Delaware (by Leonard Mosley). New York: Atheneum, 1980. (DEAF 920 D87m 1980)
• Britains Deaf Heritage (by Peter Jackson). Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1990. (DEAF 370.942 J32b 1990)
• British Deaf News, various dates. (DEAF Periodicals)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (by Dee Brown). New York: Henry Holt, 1970. (970.5 B7b 1970)
• CAID Proceedings. Full title: Proceedings of the Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf [and Dumb], 1850-1993. (DEAF 370.72 C6p; also in the Gallaudet University Archives)
• Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (by Gerald Posner). New York: Doubleday, 1994. (364.1524 K46Zp 1994)
• Choosing a Job: Information about Deaf People and Their Jobs (by Cherry Lemonds and Pam Moss). Knoxville: Southern Regional Media Center for the Deaf, University of Tennessee, 1974. (DEAF 331.702 L4c 1974)
• The Challenged Scientists: Disabilities and the Triumph of Excellence (by Robert A. Weisgerber). New York: Praeger, 1991. (DEAF 920 W436c 1991)
• Collage: Works on International Deaf History (ed. by Renate Fischer and Thomas Vollhaber). Hamburg: Signum Press, 1996. (DEAF 305.7 C64 1996)
• Comeback: Six Remarkable People Who Triumphed over Disability (by Frank Bowe). New York: Harper & Row, 1981. (DEAF 920 B68c 1981)
• Community Ear, various issues. (DEAF Periodicals)
• The Conquest of Deafness: a History of the Long Struggle to Make Possible Normal Living to Those Handicapped by Lack of Normal Hearing, 1st ed. (by Ruth E. Bender). Cleveland, Ohio: Press of Western Reserve University, 1960. (DEAF 370.1 B4c 1960)
• Contact (Dublin, Ireland), various dates. (DEAF Periodicals)
• Courageous Deaf Adults (by Darlene Toole). Beaverton, Ore.: Dormac, 1980. (DEAF 920 T66c 1980)
• Current Biography. New York: H.W. Wilson, various years. (Ref. 920 C97)
• Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany (by Horst Biesold). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1999. (DEAF 940.5318 B53c 1999)
• Dancing Without Music: Deafness in America (by Beryl Lieff Benderly). Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980. (DEAF 302.22 B4d 1980)
• Deaf American, 1964-1990. (DEAF Periodicals)
• Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary (by Deborah M. Sonnenstrahl). San Diego, Calif.: DawnSignPress, 2002. (DEAF 709.24 S66d 2002)
• Deaf Artists of America Newsletter, various dates. (DEAF Periodicals)
• Deaf Canadians: An Insight (by Martin Goldstein). Calgary: Cal/Oka Printing, 1989. (DEAF 920 C64d 1990)
• Deaf Community News, various dates. (DEAF Periodicals)
• Deaf Crime Casebook (by Peter Jackson). [s.l.]: Cox & Jackson, 1997. (DEAF 362.88 J32dc 1997)
• Deaf Esprit: Inspiration, Humor and Wisdom from the Deaf Community (edited by Damara Goff Paris and Mark Drolsbaugh). Salem, Ore.: AGO Gifts and Publications, 1999. (DEAF 817 D42 1999)
• The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education (edited by Harlan Lane). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984. (DEAF 370.944 D4 1984)
• Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America (by Jack R. Gannon). Silver Spring, Md.: National Association of the Deaf, 1981. (DEAF 305.773 G3d 1981)
• Deaf Heritage in Canada: A Distinctive, Diverse and Enduring Culture (by Clifton F. Carbin). Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1996. (DEAF 305.771 C37d 1996)
• Deaf History Unveiled: Interpretations from the New Scholarship (ed. by John Vicrey Van Cleve). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1993. (DEAF 305.773 D42 1993)
• Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (by Carol Padden). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. (DEAF 305.773 P3d 1988)
• The Deaf in the Professions, Arts and Trades (by Albert Berg). Council Bluffs, Iowa: Printed by the Iowa Hawkeye, 1944. (DEAF 920 B48d 1944)
• Deaf Life, various issues 1987-2002. (On reserve at the Circulation Desk)
• Deaf Lives: Deaf People in History (by Peter Jackson and Raymond Lee). Middlesex, England: British Deaf History Society, 2001. (DEAF 920 D43 2001)
• Deaf Murder Casebook (by Peter Jackson). [Winsford, Cheshire, England]: Cox & Jackson, 2000. (DEAF 362.88 J32de 2000)
• Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences: a Biographical Dictionary (by Harry G. Lang and Bonnie Meath-Lang). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. (DEAF 920 L35d 1995)
• Deaf Target (by Peter Jackson). Winsford, Cheshire, U.K.: Deafprint, 2002. (DEAF 362.88 J32dt 2002)
• Deaf to Evidence (by Peter Jackson). [s.l.]: Cox & Jackson, 1998. (DEAF 362.88 J32d 1998)
• The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf Culture. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1994. (DEAF 305.773 D42 1994)
• Deaf Women: A Parade through the Decades (by Mabs Holcomb and Sharon Kay Wood). Berkeley, Calif.: DawnSignPress, 1989. (DEAF 920 H64d 1988)
• Deaf Women of Canada: A Proud History and Exciting Future (by Hilda Maria Campbell, Jo-Anne Robinson, and Angela Stratiy). Edmonton: Duval House Publishing, 2002. (DEAF 920 C36d 2002)
• Deaf Women's Lives: Three Self-Portraits (by Bainy Cyrus et al.). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2005. (DEAF 920 D435 2005)
• DeafNation, various issues. (On reserve at the Circulation Desk)
• Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Scribners, 1927-1990. (Ref 920.073 D55)
• Dictionary of Canadian Artists (by Colin S. Macdonald). 1977. (Not owned by Gallaudet University)
• Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1977- . (Reference 810.9 D5)
• The Dictionary of National Biography. London: Oxford University Press, 1917-1971. (Reference 920.042 D55)
• A Dictionary of Painters of Miniatures (1525-1850), with Some Account of Exhibitions, Collections, Sales, etc., Pertaining to Them (by J.J. Foster). New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. (Not owned by Gallaudet University)
• Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs... Nouvelle edition (by E. Benezit). Paris?: Librairie Grund, 1976. (Not owned by Gallaudet University)
• Digest of the Deaf, 1938-1940. (DEAF Periodicals)
• Discoveries: Significant Contributions of Deaf Men and Women (by Anita P. Davis and Katharine S. Preston). Hillsboro, Ore.: Butte Publications, 1996. (DEAF 920 D384d 1996)
• The Eagle Soars to Enlightenment: An Illustrated History of the California School for the Deaf, San Francisco, Berkeley, Fremont (by Kenneth W. Norton). Fremont: California School for the Deaf, [2000]. (DEAF 370.9794 N67e 2000)
• Empire: The Life, Legend and Madness of Howard Hughes (by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele). New York: W.W. Norton, 1979. (338.767 H83Zb 1979)
• Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1987. (Reference 371.903 E5 1987)
• Encyclopedia of Women and Sport in America (edited by Carole A. Oglesby). Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1998. (Ref 796.082 E52 1998)
• Encyclopedia of Women and Sports (by Victoria Sherrow). Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1996. (Ref 796.082 S53e 1996)
• English Portrait Miniatures (by G. Reynolds). 1988. (Not owned by Gallaudet University)
• The Eugene and Inez Petersen Collection [of videotaped interviews of deaf persons]. Available online, http://www.rit.edu/~glk9638/history/ (Jan. 24, 2001).
• Extraordinary People with Disabilities (by Deborah Kent and Kathryn A. Quinlan). New York: Grolier/Children's Press, 1996. (DEAF 920 K46e 1996)
• Facts, Anecdotes and Poetry Relating to the Deaf and Dumb (by Edwin Allan Hodgson). New York: Deaf-Mutes' Journal, 1891. (DEAF 808.88 H6f 1891)
• The Forgotten People (by W.H. Woods, sr.). St. Petersburg, Fla.: Dixie Press [1972?]. (DEAF 331.2 W6f)
• The Four Georges (by J.H. Plumb). Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. (942.07 P73f 1975)
• Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media (edited by Ann Pointon). London: British Film Institute, 1997. (DEAF 791.4369 F72 1997)
• The Frat, 1937-1946. (DEAF Periodicals)
• The Gallaudet Almanac (compiled by Wallace Edington, David Peikoff, and Hans-Dieter Baumert). Gallaudet College Alumni Association, 1974. (On Ready Reference at the Service Desk.)
• Gallaudet Alumni Newsletter, various issues. (Archives)
• Gallaudet Encyclopedia of deaf persons and deafness. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987. (On reserve at the Circulation Desk.)
• Gallaudet Today, various dates. (On reserve at the Circulation Desk, and in the Archives.)
• Gehörlose und Hörgeschädigte Kunstmaler in Deutschland 2005 (by Rudolf Werner). Wuppertal, Germany: Versand & Kunstverlag für Hörgeschädigte, 2005. (DEAF 709.43 W47g 2005)
• Great Deaf Americans, The Second Edition (by Matthew S. Moore and Robert F. Panara). Rochester, N.Y.: Deaf Life Press, 1996. (On reserve, DEAF 920 M66g 1996)
• The Great Depression (by David Shannon). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1960. (Not owned by Gallaudet University.)
• Great English Novelists (by Jackson Holbrook). Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1967. (823.09 J12g)
• Great Lives from History: American Women Series (by Frank N. Magill). Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1995. (Reference 305.40973 G73 1995)
• The Grove Dictionary of Art Online, http://www.grovereference.com/TDA/. Print counterpart is The Grove Dictionary of Art, not owned by Gallaudet University.
• Heads of States and Governments: A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Over 2,300 Leaders, 1945 through 1992 (by Harris M. Lentz III). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1994. (Ref. 920.02 L46h 1994)
• HiP Magazine, various issues. (DEAF Periodicals)
• A History of the Amish (by Steven M. Nolt). Intercourse, Pa.: Good Books, 1992. (289.73 N64h 1992)
• History of the Great Civil War 1642-1649 (by Samuel R. Gardiner). London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1898-1901. (942 G22h)
• Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry (by John S. Schuchman). Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1988. (DEAF 791.43 S3h 1988)
• Hometown Heroes: Successful Deaf Youth in America (by Diane Robinette). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1990. (DEAF 920 R63h 1990)
• I Always Wanted to Be a Tap Dancer (ed. by Annee Lawrence). Parramatta, New South Wales: NSW Womens Advisory Council, 1989. (DEAF 920 S525i 1989)
• Im Deaf Too!: 12 Deaf Americans (by Frank Bowe and Martin Sternberg). Silver Spring, Md.: National Association of the Deaf, 1973. (DEAF 920.0973 B6i 1973)
• Interesting Deaf Amerians: Reading and Writing Exercises (by Astrid Goodstein and Margaret Walworth). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet College, 1979. (DEAF 920 G66i 1979)
• Its Academic, various issues. (Archives)
• Jet, various issues. (Periodicals)
• The Jewish Confederates (by Robert N. Rosen). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. (DEAF 975.004924 R67j 2000)
• The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull (by Robert M. Utley). New York: Ballantine, 1993. (978.00497 S5Zu 1993)
• The Legacy of Iowa School for the Deaf (by Ronald Sutcliffe). Council Bluffs, IA: Iowa School for the Deaf, 2005.
• The Life of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (by Edward Miner Gallaudet). New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1888. (DEAF 920 G3g 1888)
• Like It Is: Facts and Feelings about Handicaps from Kids Who Know (by Barbara Adams). New York: Walker, 1979. (DEAF 920 A3l 1979)
• Linguistics of American Sign Language, 2nd ed. (by Clayton Valli). Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1995. (DEAF 420 V3l 1995)
• Living Legends: Six Stories about Successful Deaf People (by Darlene Toole). Hillsboro, Ore.: Butte Publications, 1996. (DEAF 920 T66l 1996)
• Living Legends II: Six Stories about Incredible Deaf People (by Darlene Toole). Hillsboro, Ore.: Butte Publications, 1998. (DEAF 920 T66li 1998)
• Living Legends III: Six Stories about Amazing Deaf People (by Darlene Toole). Hillsboro, Ore.: Butte Publications, 2000. (DEAF 920 T66l3 2000)
• Living with Deaf-Blindness: Nine Profiles (by Carol Yoken). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet College, 1979. (DEAF 920 Y6l 1979) [Some of the profiles in this book use pseudonyms and other changes to conceal the individuals real identity. Only those profiles using the individual's real name have been indexed here.]
• Looking Back: A Reader on the History of Deaf Communities and Their Sign Languages (by Renate Fischer and Harlan Lane). Hamburg, Germany: Signum Press, 1993. (DEAF 305.7 L66 1993)
• Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History (by Robin Kadison Berson). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. (DEAF 303.484 B47m 1994)
• The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography, an International Reference Work. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. (Reference 920.02 M3 1973)
• A Missionary Chronicle: Being a History of the Ministry to the Deaf in the Episcopal Church, 1850-1980 (by Otto Benjamin Berg). Hollywood, Md.: St. Marys Press, 1984. (DEAF 283.3 B4m 1984)
• Movers & Shakers: Deaf People Who Changed the World (by Cathryn Carroll and Susan Mather). San Diego, Calif.: DawnSignPress, 1997. (On reserve, DEAF 920 M68 1997)
• MWAADA, Journal of Metropolitan Washington Association of Asian Deaf Americans, various issues. (DEAF Periodicals)
• The NAD Broadcaster, various issues. (DEAF Periodicals)
• New Horizons (Deaf Seniors of America, Inc.), various issues. (DEAF Periodicals)
• The New York Times, various dates. (Newspaper area, on microfilm)
• Notable Deaf Persons (by Guilbert C. Braddock). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet College Alumni Association, 1975. (On reserve, DEAF 920 B685n 1975)
• Ordinary Moments: The Disabled Experience (ed. by Alan J. Brightman). Baltimore: University Park Press, 1984. (DEAF 920 B424o 1984)
• The Oxford Companion to Music, 10th Edition (by Percy A. Scholes). London: Oxford University Press, 1970. (Reference 780.3 S36o 1970)
• Paintings by Deaf and Deafened Artists (by Paul Redfern). London: [s.n.], 199_?. (DEAF 709.22 R42p)
• Parade [Sunday newspaper supplement magazine], various issues.
• Peeps into the Deaf World (by W.R. Roe). Derby and London: Bemrose & Sons, 1917. (DEAF 920 R56p 1917)
• A Phone of Our Own: The Deaf Insurrection against Ma Bell (by Harry G. Lang). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2000. (DEAF 363.24 L36p 2000)
• Pioneer Artists of Taos (by Laura M. Bickerstaff). Denver: Old West Publishing Co., 1983. (DEAF 920 B52p 1983)
• Profiles in the Arts. [Washington, D.C.:] National Endowment for the Arts and President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, 1986. (DEAF 920 P76 1986)
• The Quiet Ear: Deafness in Literature (by Brian Grant). London: Andre Deutsch, 1987. (DEAF 808.8 Q8 1987)
• Representative Deaf Persons of the United States of America [first edition] (by James E. Gallaher). Chicago, Ill.: James E. Gallaher, 1898. (Archives)
• Representative Deaf Persons of the United States of America [second edition] (by James E. Gallaher). Grinnell, Iowa: Elliott S. Waring, 1898. (Archives)
• Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability (edited by Victoria A. Brownworth and Susan Raffo). Seattle, Wash.: Seal Press, 1999. (DEAF 306.7663 R47 1999)
• Sands of Time: NAD Presidents 1880-2003 (by Lawrence R. Newman). Silver Spring, Md.: National Association of the Deaf, 2006. (DEAF 366 N33ne, 2006)
• Signs in Success: Profiles of Deaf Americans (by Ron Podmore). Hillsboro, Ore.: Butte Publications, 1995. (DEAF 920 P62s 1995)
• The Silence of the Langford (by David Langford). Framingham, Mass.: NEFSA Press, 1996. (DEAF 824.914 L36s 1996)
• Silence of the Spheres: the Deaf Experience in the History of Science (by Harry G. Lang). Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey, 1994. (DEAF 306.4 L36s 1994)
• Silent News, various dates 1969-1998. (DEAF Periodicals)
• Silent Worker, various dates 1948-1963. (DEAF Periodicals)
• Snapshots of the Deaf (by W.R.Roe). Derby, England: Bemrose & Sons, 1917. (DEAF 920 R56s 1917)
• Special Parents, Special Children (by Joanne E. Bernstein and Bryna J. Firestone). Morton Grove, Ill.: Whitman & Co., 1991. (DEAF 306.874 B476s 1991)
• Sports Illustrated, various issues. (Periodicals)
• Successful Careers out of Gallaudet College. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet Press, 1956. [Note: Series 1 and Series 2 are published together within one cover, but paginated separately.] (DEAF 920 G34s no.1/2 1955/56)
• Successful Deaf Americans (by Darlene K. Toole). Beaverton, Ore.: Dormac, 1979. (DEAF 920 T66s 1979)
• Touch, Touch, and Touch Again (by Doreen E. Woodford). Feltham, Middlesex, England: British Deaf History Society Publications, 2000. (DEAF 370.942 W66t 2000)
• The Two: A Biography (by Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace). New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. (Not owned by Gallaudet University.)
• Voices of the Oral Deaf: Fourteen Role Models Speak Out (by Jim Reisler). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. (DEAF 920 R45v 2002)
• Washington Post, various issues. (Periodicals, Newspaper Microfilms)
• We Can! (by Robin Rogoff Star). Washington, D.C.: Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, 1980. (DEAF 920 S721w 1980)
• We Have Overcome: Deaf, Blind, and Great (by Karel Lipa and Pavel Les) [Brno, Czechoslovakia: TISK], 1971. (DEAF 920 L5w 1971)
• WFD News, various issues. (DEAF Periodicals)
• World Around You, various issues. (Archives)