To the editor:

Your picture of the entrance to AHA national headquarters (“Townhouse Notes,” Perspectives on History, April 2016) conveys a message of extreme inaccessibility: a steel fence and eight steps up! Is there maybe a back door for those of us who are, er, differently abled?

Jesse Lemisch
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (emeritus)

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