Music And Theology in 19th Century Britain

On a two-mile stretch of land in New York’s East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding…

Painting and Sculpture of England and the United States

Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse.