In 2019, Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquired The New York Bloomingdale Insane Asylum records, 1880-1910, comprising eight ledgers divided into three series: Admission records that ...

Origins of the Insane Asylum Historical records indicate that the asylum was established in the early 19th century, a period marked by a growing awareness of mental health issues. Initially, these ...

Russian filmmaker and Vladimir Putin propagandist Karen Shakhnazarov thinks Donald Trump sounds a lot like the people he’s seen inside “insane asylums.” Shakhnazarov spoke on Russian TV ...

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness.

The former teacher from Ireland was admitted to the Athens Lunatic Asylum as patient number 150 from Adams County, nearly two months after it opened in February 1874.

OUT OF AN INSANE ASYLUM.; A RELEASED PATIENT'S REMARKABLE STORY OF CRUEL TREATMENT. Share full article March 26, 1880 The New York Times Archives ...

After the hospital closed, an employee found 400 suitcases in the attic of the asylum, dating from 1910 to 1960. Their contents along with institutional records and doctors’ notes from patient ...

In decades past, regional newspapers often wrote about the woes of people admitted for mental health treatment at the Montana State Hospital. Here are some of their stories.

Former President Donald Trump used his interview with Fox News' Bret Baier to make the astonishing migrant claim.

Preserving memories of an asylum The Dakota County Historical Society is collecting firsthand accounts, good and bad, about the old Hastings State Hospital.