Sources

The Era of Confinement: Hoosiers with Disabilities Behind Walls was written by Jane Harlan-Simmons, Research Associate at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, for the Indiana Disability History Project.

Selected Sources

Carey, Allison C. On the Margins of Citizenship : Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2009.

Kusmer, Ken. "Indiana's Health Commissioner Apologizes for State's Role in Developing Eugenics." The Associated Press, April 13, 2007.

Lombardo, Paul A., ed., A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011.

Madison, James H.. Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014.

Miller, Marla. "Woman faces moving day after 54 years at Muscatatuck." The Republic, December 10, 2004.

State of the States in Developmental Disabilities Study

Stern, Alexandra Minna. “‘We Cannot Make a Silk Purse out of a Sow's Ear’: Eugenics in the Hoosier Heartland, 1900-1960.” Indiana Magazine of History 103, (2007): 3-38.