I hope that some visitors are aware that I have written a book about a unique asylum: Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, which was published last year by the University of Nebraska Press. I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed about it for a podcast available on the New Books Network:
You can download the podcast at the bottom left of the page. If you care to listen to it, I hope the interview (by a wonderful host from the University of California, Santa Cruz) will give you a feel for what this book is about.