The American Studies Web Museum

January 2010

Each year, students in the American Studies Web Museum at Middlebury College create online exhibits featuring archival materials in the College's Special Collections. A majority of this year's students focused on dime novels published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

cover illustration: Bowery Billy's Narrow Squeak

 

picture of veranda of mental hospital

A smaller group focused on the history of psychiatric practices and asylum life at the Brattleboro Retreat and the Vermont State Hospital for the Insane from 1880 to the present.

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