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The year 2014 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America . This article provides an account of a panel discussion that focused on the writing and publication of the book by its authors, John Vickrey Van Cleve and Barry Crouch. The panel also examined the transformative impact that A Place of Their Own had on the field of deaf history. In particular, the panel commented on the growing acceptance of deaf history as a legitimate subfield of history and the depth of sophistication in scholarship over the past three decades. Panelists included Dr. John Vickrey Van Cleve, Dr. Brian H. Greenwald, Dr. Joseph J. Murray, Dr. Octavian Robinson, and the moderator, Dr. William T. Ennis III.