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

The Bryce Hospital Museum in Tuscaloosa is now open to the public and highlights the history of mental health and civil rights in Alabama. Through a collaboration between the Alabama Department of ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

Insane asylums traditionally evoke mental images of stark white hospital rooms, dank hallways, and patients either aimlessly wandering in vegetative states or wildly acting out like Jack Nicholson in ...

Archaeologists have excavated over 1,000 graves at the site of Mississippi's former state insane asylum, uncovering artifacts ...