This year, I taught a brand-new class on the history of the psychiatric asylum with my colleague, Dr Hannah Proctor. "Bedlam ...

GRAND CHUTE - Next to the current site of Outagamie County's Brewster Village skilled nursing care center once stood the Outagamie County Asylum for the Chronic Insane. Opened in 1890, the asylum’s ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hiawatha Asylum at the peak of its operation. On May 8, 1897, South Dakota Senator Richard F. Pettigrew introduced a bill on the ...

A documentary now streaming on multiple platforms delves into the history of the former New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, the columned, neoclassical building known as Old Main. The crew was ...

CROWNSVILLE, Md. — “I get teary-eyed every time they do this,” Janice Hayes-Williams, an Annapolis historian, said. On a bright, cold morning in January, cadaver dogs, specially trained to find human ...

President Donald Trump seeks to fundamentally alter how the United States approaches immigration. Less than a month into office, the White House has effectively shut the border to ...

A documentary on Old Main, the Greek revival building originally known as the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica in West Utica, is now showing on Amazon, Apple TV and Google Play/You Tube for ...

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