Elizabeth Packard

Theophilus Packard

Elizabeth and Theophilus Packard

Dr. Andrew McFarland

Illustration of the Illinois State Asylum and Hospital

Illustration depicting abuse within the asylum, from Modern Persecution

Title page from Modern Persecution by Elizabeth Packard

Kate Moore’s book about Elizabeth Packard

(Kate Moore / The Woman They Could Not Silence)

Karen:

Elizabeth Packard, mental health rights pioneer

Episode sources:

1. “The Woman They Could Not Silence” by Kate Moore

2. “How Victorian Women Were Oppressed Through the Use of Psychiatry” (The Atlantic)

3. “The Calvinist Manifesto” by Francis Fukuyama (New York Times) 2005

4. “Evangelicals Find Themselves in the Midst of a Calvinist Revival” by Mark Oppenheimer (New York Times) 2014

5. “Henry Ward Beecher, a Preacher with Political Clout” by Gregg Mangan (Connecticut History) 2021

6. “160 years later, activist Elizabeth Packard honored in place of abusive psychiatrist she exposed” by Jerry Nowicki, Molly Parker (NPR) 2023

7. ““One of the Branches”: E.P.W. Packard, Libby, Mental Health, and Barbara Sapinsley’s clever storytelling” (Packed With Packards) 2024

8. “The Root: How Racism Tainted Women’s Suffrage” by Monee Fields-White (NPR) 2011

9. “Celebrate Women’s Suffrage, but Don’t Whitewash the Movement’s Racism” by Tammy L. Brown (ACLU) 2018

10. “Elizabeth Packard” by Marianna Brandman (Women's History)

11. “Advocate for the Rights of Married Women” (Women's History Blog)

12. “A Woman Is Committed To An Asylum For Thinking In 'The Woman They Could Not Silence'” by Annalisa Quinn (NPR) 2021

13. “Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard” by S.B.W. (EBSCO) 2023

Georgia:

The Aconcagua Mountain Mystery

Episode sources:

1. “Ghosts on the Glacier” by John Branch and Emily Rhyne (The New York Times) 2023

2. “Aconcagua: nightmare 23,000 feet in the air” by Tom Forstrom (The Capital Journal) 1973

3. “2 Americans may have died in attempt on highest peak” (UPI) 1973

John Cooper

(Bill Eubank, The New York Times)

Janet Johnson

(Janet Mae Johnson in 1973 - New York Times)

Janet Climbing

(Janet Johnson)

The Climbing Party

Newspaper coverage of the event

(Los Andes)

Zeller or McMillen ahead of Janet

(Janet Johnson)

More of Janet’s photos

(Janet Johnson)