Brandeis University’s Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department houses a wide array of material from the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center’s Samuel Gridley Howe ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. In the 1830s, Samuel Gridley ...

In 1846, the Boston physician Samuel Gridley Howe, already renowned as the founding director of what would become the Perkins School for the Blind, set off across Massachusetts on a mission. The state ...

RARELY, if ever, has any Boston doctor been farther afield than Samuel Gridley Howe. This is not to speak, of course, in great circle miles, but the mountains of Greece in 1825 were far away in time ...

In this flowing narrative, Showalter (A Jury of Her Peers), emeritus professor of English at Princeton University, examines the life of Julia Ward (1819–1910) and her marriage to Samuel Gridley Howe ...