Special Features
- Bonus Video: Original Interview: Janice Jones-Thomson
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- Bonus Video: Original Interview: Howard Dully
- Bonus Video: Original Interview: Angelene Forester
- General Article: Online Forum
- Interview: Behind the Scenes with the Producers
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.
Series Blog
From the Times to the Tomes: History Evolving
April 5, 2010
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.”
