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capri0mni(Maybe -- with the usual caveat about unforeseen consequence)
The Earth history, where, after the Christmas Truce(s) of 1914, the generals and political leaders, instead of threatening court martials, had said: "You know? The boys are right. Let's call off this damned War."
And the Earth History where, instead of turning to Alexander Graham Bell (infamous eugenicist and hater of the Deaf), Helen Keller's family had turned to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet for advice in raising their young daughter. (Recommended reading: Never the Twain Shall Meet: Bell, Gallaudet, and the Communications Debate.
The Earth history, where, after the Christmas Truce(s) of 1914, the generals and political leaders, instead of threatening court martials, had said: "You know? The boys are right. Let's call off this damned War."
And the Earth History where, instead of turning to Alexander Graham Bell (infamous eugenicist and hater of the Deaf), Helen Keller's family had turned to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet for advice in raising their young daughter. (Recommended reading: Never the Twain Shall Meet: Bell, Gallaudet, and the Communications Debate.
Open up the portal
Date: 2018-01-04 01:12 am (UTC)Thanks for a new Deaf history title, btw.
Have you read A Phone of Our Own: the deaf insurrection against Ma Bell?
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43599157
How Deaf geeks invented phone modems to get around Bell's monopoly on TI-lines -- highly technical, but that's my jam.
Re: Open up the portal
Date: 2018-01-04 12:07 pm (UTC)And thanks for the reminder of an event to put in my Disability History calendar (Though I will have to [soon] write a post about how including deafness as a disability is a sensitive issue, and why I've decided in favor of including it).