Education: Lesson Details



Objectives

1. To explore the various voices that contributed to competing definitions of mental disability in antebellum America.

2. To examine public care for people with mental illness in the mid-1800s.

3. To understand both the reform efforts of Dorothea Dix and the results of those reform efforts.

4. To analyze historical evidence, including contradictory evidence, to construct a more complex picture of the past.