The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded
The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded

Author: Molly McCully Brown

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0892554789

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A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 Harrowing poems from a dark corner of American history by the winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Haunted by the voices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century, this evocative debut marks the emergence of a poet of exceptional poise and compassion, who grew up in the shadow of the Colony itself.

Inventing the Feeble Mind
Inventing the Feeble Mind

Author: James Trent

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0199396205

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Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history.

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: United States. Office of Education

Publisher:

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 814

ISBN-13:

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