Special Features
- Bonus Video: Original Interview: Angelene Forester
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- Timeline: Treatments for Mental Illness
- General Article: Treatment Options Today
- General Article: Online Forum
- Preview: The Lobotomist Preview
In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.
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From the Times to the Tomes: History Evolving
In Phillip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel American Pastoral he remarks of history, “People think of history in the long term, but history, in fact, is a very sudden thing.”
The Pill
The story behind the development of the oral contraceptive that put women in control of birth control.
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Grand Central
A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street that forever changed midtown Manhattan.
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Radio Bikini
While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing for nuclear tests on Bikini Island.
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The Wright Stuff
Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright built a flying machine that made its first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.
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The Iron Road
Begun during the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad employed 20,000 men, mostly immigrants, who built the iron road with their bare hands.
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Edison's Miracle of Light
"The Wizard of Menlo Park," Inventor Thomas Edison, built the first practical light bulb and revolutionized the world.
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Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Equipment failure, human error and bad luck led to the country's worst nuclear accident in 1979.
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