Curators and Culture argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870.

Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years.  Still, to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment, nor insanity from crime in the courts.