Books About The Ladd School

 
 
Pictures and History of Ladd School RI
Idiots, Imbeciles and Morons

This unprecedented collection of photographs illustrates in stark detail the meaning of feeble-mindedness as it was defined by eugenics-era ideologies and pre-war attitudes toward morality.

hardcover | PDF | 367 pages | illustrated
Stories of Ladd School RI
The Bones of Gary Hayman & the Search for Samuel Finn

A psychic horse, a headless skeleton, and a child’s miraculous survival in the wilderness; the true story of two young boys who escape from the Exeter School.

paperback | PDF | 75 pages | illustrated
History of Ladd School RI
The Ladd School: Back Wards, Blue
Rooms

In 2 parts, Back Wards, Blue Rooms tells the 86-year history of the Ladd School, capturing the spirit of its mystery and revealing the reasons for its infamy.

paperback | 160 pages | illustrated