The manliest man : Samuel G. Howe and the contours of nineteenth-century American reform / James W. Trent Jr.

Mental retardation in America : a historical reader / edited by Steven Noll and James W. Trent, Jr.

xii, 356 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Inventing the feeble mind : a history of mental retardation in the United States / James W. Trent, Jr.

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Trent, James W., Jr., 1948-

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The manliest man : Samuel G. Howe and the contours of nineteenth-century American reform / James W. Trent Jr.

Mental retardation in America : a historical reader / edited by Steven Noll and James W. Trent, Jr.

Inventing the feeble mind : a history of mental retardation in the United States / James W. Trent, Jr.