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. Using just their hands and small shovels to remove soil one scoop at a time, archaeologists have begun the arduous task of ...

Ex-mental health commissioner King Davis, PhD, left, leads the Friends of Central State group, Dr. Ronald O. Forbes serves as the vice chairman, pose for a photo in Dinwiddie, Va., Monday, Sept. 14, ...

BURIED AT THE SITE. IT’S CALLED THE ASYLUM HILL PROJECT. BUT CONSTRUCTION UNCOVERED HUMAN REMAINS AND GRAVES IN 2012. NOW, ARCHEOLOGICAL STUDIES PREDICT THERE COULD BE UP TO 7000 PEOPLE BURIED ON ...

Volunteers who look after a cemetery have thanked a local business for their "extraordinary gesture of kindness" after they fixed a damaged headstone. The memorial stone for Herbert Mackie at Mendip ...

Last October, the domed 19th-century building that stood as the centerpiece to New Jersey's Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was demolished. Christopher Payne, “Patient Dresses Made at Clarinda ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The UB Art Galleries is calling on the Buffalo community to help preserve the stories of women who were once patients at the former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, now the site of the historic ...