Accessible Gallaudet History

I have big dreams for the future. I am planning to major in Deaf Studies and minor in History, and I want to become a researcher of deaf history, with a possible focus on international deaf history. I already know what I want to do first. I am hoping to write an accessible book about the history of Gallaudet. Right now I am reading History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907, and when I picked that up in the library I spotted another book or two about the same subject – but nothing more recent than 1985, and it’s changed so much since then! The book I’m reading now is fascinating, but it’s also mostly text; the same goes for the other book I noticed about the college’s history. I want to write a book that everyone can enjoy. I want to include pictures, sidebars, quotations, anecdotes, stories, copies of documents, everything! I think the hardest part about writing this book will be deciding what to leave out, because I can already envision hundreds of pages and that wouldn’t be very accessible, now would it? It’s going to be great…can I skip ahead to DST 780, the Cultural Studies Research Project course in the Deaf Studies department? Please? Oh boy do I have plans!