When she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887, Nellie Bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. “Nearly all night long I listened to a woman cry about the cold and beg ...

Play Tells Tale of Woman Silenced for Her Beliefs In 1861, Elizabeth Packard was forcibly removed from her home and committed to an insane asylum because she disagreed with her Calvinist husband's ...

VICTIM OF AN INSANE WOMAN.; Female Patient in a Massachusetts Asylum Kills Another During an Attendant's Temporary Absence. Share full article. Sept. 14, 1902.

Simone Schmidt will debut the theatrical adaptation of her album Audible Songs From Rockwood in a show that gives voice to the women of the asylum. Aug. 6, 2019 2 min read ...

Infinite Variety Productions, a theater company dedicated to spotlighting women who have gone unnoticed in history, and Wildrence, an immersive design studio and one of New York's most dynamic ...

The first OED citation for “political asylum,” from The Times of London in 1852, relates to religious and political turmoil at the time in Switzerland and France. Some of the local Swiss states, or ...

Hart Island, which sits at the western end of New York's Long Island Sound, boasts more than 850,000 residents - all of them dead. The island is now used ...

LONDON, Jan. 27.-Fifty lunatics, perhaps more, were burned to death this morning in a fire that destroyed five wooden buildings of the Colney Hatch Insane Asylum, a few miles out of the City of ...