The Lobotomist |
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Read the 1946 Life exposé "Bedlam 1946," examining two state hospitals: Pennsylvania's Byberry and Ohio's Cleveland State.
The Polio Crusade |
Teaser
The polio crusade was a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease.
The Polio Crusade |
Article
Larry Becker fell ill with infantile paralysis in summer 1952, when he was 13 years old.
The Polio Crusade |
Article
Dr. Isabel Morgan was an early and important player in the race to find a polio vaccine.
The Polio Crusade |
Primary Source
Suggested classroom activities on how polio affected the local community and the effectiveness of the vaccine.
The Polio Crusade |
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In the mid-twentieth century, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (the predecessor to today’s March of Dimes) pioneered a new approach to philanthropy, raising money a dime at a time from millions of small donors.
The Eugenics Crusade |
Trailer
Uncover the shocking history of the early 20th-century campaign to breed a “better” American race.
A Brilliant Madness |
Article
Randy MacLowry, producer and co-writer of A Brilliant Madness , talks about his experiences making a documentary on John Nash.
A Brilliant Madness |
Article
John Nash, like so many of the best scientific minds of the late 1940s and 1950s, was drawn into a military think tank — the RAND Corporation.
A Brilliant Madness |
Article
Abraham Flexner, an expert in medical education, convinced the Bamberger family to establish Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
A Brilliant Madness |
Article
In 1953, while Nash was at M.I.T., FBI agents went after three members of the university's math department who previously had been members of the Communist Party.
A Brilliant Madness |
Article
It should surprise no one that the myth-making industry gets mental illness, especially schizophrenia, wrong more often than right.
