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

President Donald Trump says he would consider reopening insane asylums as he expands his anti-crime crackdown. Trump made the suggestion in a Daily Caller interview with reporter Reagan Reese that ...

Between 1848 and 1890, dozens of grand mental asylums were built around the United States under the Kirkbride Plan, designed by Thomas Story Kirkbride. Postcard of the “State Insane Asylum” in Morris ...

A couple of things spurred me to write this post. First, in a matter of days (and along with colleagues Vicky Long and Despo Kritsotaki), I will be submitting a book proposal on the history of ...

The fenced-in parcel of dirt and overgrown grass in central Phoenix resembles an empty and neglected lot strewn with dead palm fronds, parched-looking trees and trash. Yet anyone who looks more ...

Over its 138-year existence, political correctness has played a huge role in the name of that large institution on the south side of the city of Napa. In the beginning, it was the Napa Insane Asylum, ...