The Education of Laura Bridgman

First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

Ernest Freeberg

  • 2001 John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association

Introduction

1. In Quest of His Prize

2. Mind over Matter

3. In the Public Eye

4. Body and Mind

5. The Instinct to Be Good

6. Punishing Thoughts

7. Sensing God

8. Crisis

9. Disillusionment

10. A New Theory of Human Nature

11. My Sunny Home

12. Legacy

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: The Education of Laura Bridgman

Ernest Freeberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee.