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Step by Step: The Curative Violence of Stockings and Shoes at the Syracuse State School (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Environmental and Social Issues within Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1851, the New York State Legislature sponsored the opening of the Syracuse State School for Idiots (further referred to as the School), a publicly funded asylum school for disabled children, in hopes of creating economically productive, governable members of society. Every year, the School’s...