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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, I’d love to! Just email me at my work address— looking forward to it!

Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A fun thing: My talk at the AAS this past July about my new book _Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship_ was broadcast on C-SPAN yesterday morning! (I missed it!) If you're interested, check it out here: www.c-span.org/program/book... Huge thanks to the @amantiquarian.bsky.social!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@miriamposner.com's SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN, out in October from @yalepress.bsky.social, which offers a timely lesson on how capitalism shapes software design--and thus what we can and cannot know about the information (and people) our software rests upon. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 5/

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Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Britt Rusert's AFRIC-AMERICAN PICTURE GALLERY, out in September with @dukepress.bsky.social, which reanimates and theorizes William J. Wilson's speculative museum of Black art, decades if not centuries before an actual museum of Black art came to be: www.dukeupress.edu/the-afric-am... 4/

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The Afric-American Picture Gallery: William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@mollyfarrell.bsky.social's NEW WORLD CALCULATION, in many ways a prehistory of DATA BY DESIGN, which shows how settler colonialism and racial capitalism set our current data practices in motion. It's out next month with @stanfordpress.bsky.social: www.sup.org/books/litera... 3/

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

One of the nicest and most unexpected pleasures of having worked on a book for so long is that all of the friends you make along the way, who have also been working on their books for so long, eventually finish those books--all at the same time! I am feeling so much vicarious pride in 1/

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@sarialtschuler.bsky.social's BEFORE DISABILITY, which looks to the era before disability was pathologized (and racialized) to show how disability once represented the promise of US citizenship, out now with @pennpress.bsky.social: www.pennpress.org/978151282951... 2/

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Before Disability – Penn Press

A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil WarThe history of disability rights is ofte...

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thanks for joining and for asking your library to order!

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If you're going to be hanging out near Worcester tomorrow (or would like to join online), I'd love to see you!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

victory lapping on this one

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Pleasure to talk to @sarialtschuler.bsky.social about her new book, which traces how disability shaped citizenship, including efforts by white people to portray Black and Indigenous people as inherently disabled to deprive them of rights. New at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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How disability shaped American citizenship

A new book reveals the long relationship between race, disability, and nationhood in the revolutionary-era United States.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Cannot wait to read @sarialtschuler.bsky.social’s newest book

Book cover of Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship by Sari Altschuler. A white background with an American flag that has sign language signs instead of stars

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Oh! Thanks so much for sharing! ❤️

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Got to celebrate the publication of @sarialtschuler.bsky.social’s new book today- BEFORE DISABILITY: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. What a project!!!

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

So wonderful to see you guys tonight! You’re next! ❤️

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/06/2026

We tend to treat disability politics as a modern phenomenon. It’s not. @sarialtschuler.bsky.social's new book explains "how disability helped to shape US citizenship and, in turn, how the formation of US citizenship shaped disability."

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How disability shaped American citizenship

A new book reveals the long relationship between race, disability, and nationhood in the revolutionary-era United States.

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Morgan McCullough @morganmccullough.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Happy pub day to @sarialtschuler.bsky.social! Learn more about her new book, Before Disability, in the most recent issue of Sally Franklin's Bookshelf

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Get a sneak peek at Before Disability, new from @sarialtschuler.bsky.social. Today at Sally Franklin’s Bookshelf, she explains how the book explores the “entangled history of disability, race, and citizenship” in the United States before the Civil War. #VastEarlyAmerica @pennpress.bsky.social

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Sari Altschuler, Before Disability — Clio Digital Media

Yesterday, June 13, was the  160th anniversary of the US Congress passing the 14th Amendment  (it was ratified two years later, in 1868). The 14th Amendment is one of several important Ame...

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Thank you! I’m really looking forward to reading yours this summer.

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Very kind! Would love to know what you think!

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

@sarialtschuler.bsky.social will appreciate this thread - and folks on here might like to read her new book, BEFORE DISABILITY: A History of American Citizenship. bsky.app/profile/sari...

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Students were always my imagined readers when I was writing DATA FEMINISM. Every time I asked myself, "How do I explain this clearly?" or "Why should people care?" I was thinking of them. So getting to build a course around those questions felt like coming back to my (Google Docs) home

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Also, it feels shameless, but I feel like I should mention that currently the cheapest way to get this book is directly from the press, where it is $27 with the code PENN-SUMMER26: www.pennpress.org/978151282951...

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Before Disability – Penn Press

A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil WarThe history of disability rights is ofte...

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Introduction 1: Insanity and Property 2: Deafness and Testimony 3: Blindness and Literacy 4: Veteran Disability and Pensions / “Idiocy” and Education 5: “Deaf, Dumb, Blind, and Insane Colored Persons” After Disability: An Epilogue

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

As we seek to imagine the relationship between disability and citizenship more equitably and expansively for ourselves, we should begin by remembering that many disabled and nondisabled Americans before us did, too.

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

While possibilities narrowed by the antebellum era, Americans continued to imagine, articulate, and enact broader definitions.

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Before citizenship was federally defined in the late 1860s, Americans were still working out what it meant. They used the narrative forms available to them—from melodrama and the gothic to the slave narrative and the criminal confession—to do this work.

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