Introduction

Gallaudet University created the "DEAF EYES" project to bring Deaf history to the public and expand our understanding of United States history. The project is multi-faceted and includes:

Exhibition - History Through Deaf Eyes
Documentary Film - Through Deaf Eyes
Book - Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community
Poster Series - no longer available
DVD shown within the exhibition: By Necessity and By Choice: How We Communicate

Gallaudet University produced the exhibition, book, poster series, and this website.

Students of all ages posed in front of an American flag, signing words from the Star Spangled Banner

Students from the St. Rita’s School for the Deaf. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1918.
Photograph by J.B. Schmidt.
National Archives, Image: 165-WW-77E-3.

History Through Deaf Eyes
was made possible by a major grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities

and generous support from:
The Motorola Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
SBC Foundation
BFGoodrich Foundation