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Winning, losing, and learning through sports

Together in the dorms: Community life at boarding school

Trades and Training for Boys

State School in an Expanding Nation

Segregated Schools in the post-war South

Lincoln signs act of congress to authorize Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind to confer degrees

Little Paper Family: Deaf students turn to newspapers and magazines

Home away from home: Schools for the Deaf

Home Skills – Training in sewing, cooking, and hairstyling

From Asylum to School: Families pool their resources

Family ties: Deaf children away at school get creative for writing to parents

After school: Extracurricular activities at Gallaudet

A language shared by hand and heart: Laurent Clerc brings sign language from Paris

A place of our own: the first permanent school for deaf children

A solemn responsibility, a cup of consolation

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History Through Deaf Eyes – Classroom Learning

Deaf students, like most hearing students, learned reading, writing, mathematics, and science in the classroom. Teachers also discussed local and national news. For many students, teachers were the primary source of information about world events.

At the American School for the Deaf, students sat in a half-circle so they could see one another while signing and speaking.

American School for the Deaf

North Dakota School for the Deaf students.

“Be Quiet!” in a school for deaf children, that command meant put your hands down and clasp them together. These students at the North Dakota School for the Deaf look as if they just got the word.

Students sat in rows in this classroom and many others.

State Historical Society of North Dakota – C1293 c.1904

A language shared by hand and heart: Laurent Clerc brings sign language from Paris

A place of our own: the first permanent school for deaf children

A solemn responsibility, a cup of consolation

After school: Extracurricular activities at Gallaudet

Classroom learning for Deaf students

Family ties: Deaf children away at school get creative for writing to parents

From Asylum to School: Families pool their resources

Home away from home: Schools for the Deaf

Home Skills – Training in sewing, cooking, and hairstyling

Lincoln signs act of congress to authorize Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind to confer degrees

Little Paper Family: Deaf students turn to newspapers and magazines

Segregated Schools in the post-war South

State School in an Expanding Nation

Together in the dorms: Community life at boarding school

Trades and Training for Boys

Winning, losing, and learning through sports
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