These books cover deaf history (also known as deaf heritage).
1. Deaf Heritage
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Jack Gannon's classic book "Deaf Heritage" should be required in every deaf person's household. This well-organized and well-illustrated book has a comprehensive overview of deaf history/heritage.
2. Crying Hands
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Book about how deaf people (Jewish and others) were treated by the Nazis. Very scholarly and rich with detail.
3. A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America
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Like Deaf Heritage, this book gives a history of the deaf community. It covers deaf education, organizations, culture, sign language, and marriage within the deaf community.
4. The Deaf History Reader
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As the title implies, this book is a collection of articles on a variety of topics in deaf history. Topics covered include deaf education, genetic deafness, and Alexander Graham Bell.
5. Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community
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This book, produced as a companion piece for the television documentary Through Deaf Eyes, is loaded with historic photographs and stories about deaf people at school, work, and interacting with each other.
