No flowers or headstones mark the graves, just deliberately arranged rows of trees and a sign: "Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891-1943." The boy had epilepsy and died of a seizure.

On a hot summer’s night in June 1860, the heavy door of the insane asylum clanged shut behind Elizabeth Packard and she felt all hope desert her. Because she was not mad. She was merely ...

"For instance in West Virginia you could actually sign your wife into the insane asylum because she wasn’t being obedient to you." Electric shock therapy and lobotomies were common.

THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. Share full article. July 6, 1862. ... At the Colored Orphan Asylum, ... not a voice of merriment nor a sign of recognition of the day was to be met within its walls.

Immigration. Asylum Isn't As Crazy as Trump Claims The president-elect can't tell political asylum from an insane asylum. But a little linguistic history reveals a more compelling American tradition.