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During WWII The Kentucky State Hospital was utilized as a German POW camp as well as a center to provide psychiatric treatment for American Soldiers. Later, it was converted into a mental asylum. This is your opportunity to go behind the walls and find out what it was like inside the Kentucky mental asylum. The medical treatments considered routine at that time will shock and amaze you.

The 1848 German Revolution resulted in the emigration of large numbers of the German intellectual class to the U.S. These immigrants became known as the Forty-Eighters. The German-American Forty-Eighters 1848-1998 uses the 150th anniversary of the German Revolution and subsequent emigration as cause to evaluate the impact these immigrants had upon the United States. Editor and contributor Don Heinrich Tolzmann brings together several works highlighting this impact and overall influence on American history.