A rich and fascinating study of education, social reform, and women's history,Daughters of the State explores the lives of young girls who came to the State Industrial School forGirls in Lancaster, Massachusetts during its first fifty years ...

Until this book was published, most writing on special education was about specific disabilities and how to cope with them.

The book is divided into two sections. The essays in the first section examine the broad background of science in the South between 1830 and 1860; the second section addresses medicine specifically.

This book--the fist historical study of insanity to analyze thousands of court commitment records--provides an original look at the social, institutional, and professional web in which deviant individuals were officially judged "so far ...

Twelve pivotal songs from the classic rock era all arranged for easy guitar with TAB.

Collection of readings on social control in the USA - includes bibliography pp. 359 to 372 and references.