New Release by Dr. Cathy Kudlick

Author: Department of History
March 20, 2016
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Cathy Kudlick has sucessfully sheparded Dr. Paul K. Longmore's posthumous work, Telethons:Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity through publication with Oxford University Press.

Drawing upon two decades of painstaking research, Longmore's book provides the first cultural history of a fundraising form that became a fixture of American life. The Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability continues his work.