Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

Over its 138-year existence, political correctness has played a huge role in the name of that large institution on the south side of the city of Napa. In the beginning, it was the Napa Insane Asylum, ...