Northampton State Hospital

• Historic Northampton A source for all things Northampton, Historic Northampton archives and exhibits important historical material and serves as a hub for local research

• Forbes Library Forbes Library possesses not only the archive for the local periodicals but also a focused local history and reference section.

• Northampton Community Television Northampton Community Television provides the space, equipment and training to help make the video recorded Narratives possible.

Contributors

• Professor Riddell’s Northampton State Hospital site which like his class is concerned with the drive to deinstitutionalization and its effect on the community.

Related Sites

• 1856 Anna Schuleit’s site for the Habeas Corpus event. Though several years old the site still provides in-depth information not available elsewhere online. Viewing the site requires Microsoft Internet Explorer.
• Disability History Museum contains a library of artifacts, articles, and imagery and will soon host resources for teachers "to promote understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, chronicling, and interpreting their stories."
• Freedom Center, a local "support and activism community run by and for people labeled with severe ‘mental disorders’" work with oral history is a framework for our research of a similar nature. Together with the Icarus Project the FC recently published a Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs Guide.
• Kirkbride Buildings’ Northampton State Hospital section. Pictures and historical information concerning the Kirkbride plan for the construction of asylums. The site also features several other asylums as well as a news section for current events.
• The Center for Public Representation seeks to improve the quality of lives of people with mental illness and other disabilities through the systemic enforcement of their legal rights while promoting improvements in services for citizens with disabilities.