Exhibitions marking the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, as well as the histories of women institutionalized in 19th-century asylums will open in the UB Anderson Gallery on Sept. 12. “Eighty-Six ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Trump administration is making it much more difficult for women fleeing ...

UB Art Galleries is asking Buffalo residents for help in collecting and documenting personal mementos from women who were once confined to Buffalo State Asylum. Many of us have heard stories of ...

For the past few years, Daisy McCoy has opened up her spare bedroom in Lyndon to asylum seekers from all over the world. They’ve come from Togo, Honduras, Uganda, Cuba and Yemen to the Northeast ...

Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly feigned mental illness to gain admittance to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island in New York (now known as Roosevelt Island) in 1887.

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...