Jon, Wyatt, and Sam

Mrs. Shipley

National History Day

February 17, 2020

Annotated Bibliography

Primary

http://www.adamshistory.org/images/stories/HRC_Cemetery_Records_Website_PDF.pdf

This PDF was very full of the documented deaths of all residents at Ingleside Hospital. It

showed the ID number, Patient Number, Patient First and Last Name, the death date, and the

death year. The documentation of the deaths showed us many useful trends in the hospital. For

instance, the timing of deaths was never very far apart from one another. That showed us that the

quality of life was very poor and that death was very close to all residents.

https://history.nebraska.gov/sites/history.nebraska.gov/files/doc/Central%20Nebraska%20Public

%20Power%20and%20Irrigation%20District%20%5bRG601%5d.pdf

This source was necessary to know exactly what was going on during the time that the

hospital was built and operating. It gave us insight into other pressing agricultural dilemmas and

what was needed to solve them. It showed what the people might have been thinking or what

their thought process was at the time. It wasn’t our most useful source, but we were able to get

some use from it as a primary source.

https://history.nebraska.gov/sites/history.nebraska.gov/files/doc/Grand%20Island%20Veterans%

20Home%20(DHHS)%20%5bRG0097%5d.pdf
 Our final primary source was like a complete log of any actions that happened at

Ingleside Hospital. It showed deaths, admissions, transfers, and other miscellaneous

documentation. It was a lot like the first source of how helpful it was, but went more into depth

and wasn’t as neat with the documenting. We used this to really understand the day to day life

for residents at Ingleside, and we gained insight on how they were treated by the doctors there.

Secondary

“Hastings State Hospital Nebraska.” Hastings State Hospital Nebraska - Asylum Projects.

Accessed February 18, 2020.

https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php/Hastings_State_Hospital_Nebraska​.

Our first secondary source showed why Nebraska thought we needed a hospital for the

insane, the reasoning for backing up what was occurring at the hospital, and how the hospital

was founded. Originally, the hospital was meant for really messed up inmates and jails people,

which gave us the idea about how the people may have been mistreated starting from such a

rough beginning. Finally, we used this source on our about page of the website quite a bit.

McKEE, JIM. “Jim McKee: Ingleside, Nebraska, Home to an Early Mental Hospital.”

JournalStar.com, April 26, 2015.

https://journalstar.com/news/local/jim-mckee-ingleside-nebraska-home-to-an-early-ment

al-hospital/article_2e7c28f8-17be-595e-9d5e-d5cf99e9fc3b.html​.

This article portrayed the history of Ingleside before it was a hospital. It gave reasoning

to why it was funded by the state, why it was built where it is, and what kinds of people were
originally admitted. It also talked a lot about how many names changes it went through, and even

went as far as to talk about how much each resident daily cost of living and care was.

Trishwriter. “Hastings Regional Center.” Abandoned, Forgotten, & Decayed, December 22,

2019. https://abandonedforgottendecayed.com/2016/01/29/hastings-regional-center-2/.

The final secondary source was very helpful because it gave us a visual of the hospital

without us having to go to the hospital ourselves. It showed the state it was left in and even told

us about how the hospital is still being used but not as an insane asylum. It was very helpful to

visualize what some of the other articles talked about through the pictures we were given.
Ingleside hospital for the insane broke the patient’s moral and ethical barriers several times
before being shut down.

Title - Ingleside Hospital For The Insane

Tabs - Home Page (This will be where our names and entry title is, what division we’re in and
how many student composed words there were, About (On this page we will broaden the
information given in the home page, we will also show where we are going with the information),
Broken Barriers (This page will be dedicated to the barriers that were broken by the facility), Fun
Facts (this page might get removed), and References (this will show our references)