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Sharp Contrasts

Sod Homestead Built in 1900 in Pennington County, SD, courtesy Library of Congress

Sod Homestead Built in 1900 in Pennington County, SD, courtesy Library of Congress

Much of the commentary concerning insane asylums tends toward the negative, and rightly so, since they were often places of confinement for people who were in them unwillingly. Treatments were also much too vigorous at times, and many patients must have felt a pervasive sense of potential violence within the institution. Continue reading