1. Jack Gannon, Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America (Silver Spring, Md.: National Association of the Deaf, 1981), 247.
2. John Van Cleve and Barry A. Crouch, A Place of Their Own (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1989), 60.
3. Lauren Kessler, The Dissident Press (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1984), 8.
4. John Van Cleve, Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1987), 194.
5. Many of the Little Papers are available on microfilm at the Gallaudet University Library in Washington, D.C. However, copies of newspapers before 1880 are few.