The history of the Crownsville Hospital and it’s patients are starting to be told.

Here are just a few …

Released in 2018. "Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in Crownsville, MD. In addition, interviews with historians and former hospital wor
The 2017 movie, based on the 2010 book, starring Oprah Winfrey as one of Henrietta Lacks' daughers, Deborah Lacks.
Published in 2010. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio v
Part of the Generations Magazine series published by the Jewish Museum of Maryland. This is the 2009/2010 edition. This special feature edition explores the concepts of social justice in Baltimore including two chapters on the Crownsville State Hospi
Published by the Johns Hopkins Press in 1916.