Dorothea Dix played an important role in changing the ways people thought about patients who were mentally-ill and handicapped, originally cast-off as being punished by God, as well as the way facilities handled and treated them. She believed that people of such standing would do better by being tr...

THE INEVITABILITY OF THE BREAKUP OF THE UNIONBy Sam TookerThe breakup of the Union was inevitable. The south was always going to secede; it was just a question of when. The southern and northern states varied on many issues. There were deep economic, social, and political differences between the ...