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Category: Research

“The Shame of Pennsylvania”: Public Memory, Local News, and Institutionalization’s Contested Past

A narrative analysis of public memory of Pennhurst State School and Hospital as found in 224 news stories, reader letters, and online comments appearing in Pennsylvania newspapers in 2010 and 2011.

The Birth of a Haunted “Asylum”: Public Memory and Community Storytelling

An ethnographic research project conducted between 2010 and 2015, which examined public memory of Pennhurst State School and Hospital, a historic asylum in Spring City, PA, and included archival research, media analysis, oral history interviews, and participant observation.

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