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Source: Atlas Obscura

10/31/19

A Cultural Historian Explores an Old Mental Hospital and Why They Scare Us

by Troy Rondinone

They are haunted, but not by ghosts.

6/17/18

Should We Bring Back Asylums?

by Stacy Horn

If we did they’d probably fail and the for the same reason they failed in the past.

October 6, 2016

Texans Yearning for Home in the Roaring Twenties

by Bruce Chadwick

"Roads to Home" is a gauzy and loving play about life in Texas, in America, in the 1920s.

Source: Department of Defense

1946

Let There Be Light, 1946

Documentary: Veterans' hospital showing ten week treatment program for men with psychological problems stemming from combat.