Grant will boost college's efforts to teach disability history to rural communities     

(November 27, 2024)

Keene State College News

Warder has been active in disability history, beginning in 2000 as cataloger and acquisitions director of the all-digital Disability History Museum. A National Endowment for the Humanities partially financed the disability history curriculum on that website We the People grant awarded to the college, Becoming Helen Keller, for which Warder served as project director. PBS broadcast an American Masters film of that title in 2021. 

Warder served as lead historian in developing the nation’s most comprehensive K-12 disability history curriculum: Reform to Equal Rights, published online by the Emerging America program of the Collaborative for Educational Services. 

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