The new book “‘Vermont for the Vermonters’: The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State,” as seen on the shelves of Everyone’s Books in Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger When ...

In the world of pseudo-science, eugenics holds a dark position in history thanks to its being a social philosophy based on improving society via the manipulation of a population’s genetic stock. Its ...

When one thinks of sociopolitical movements from history that were intended to champion racial superiority, what most likely comes to mind first, and rightfully so, are the efforts by Nazi Germany to ...

In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding. The ...

The Vermont Historical Society will publish a new book about the history of the state's eugenics movement on Sept. 28: "Vermont for the Vermonters": The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State ...

“The ultimate ideal sought,” wrote Harvey Ernest Jordan in 1912, “is a perfect society constituted of perfect individuals.” Jordan, who would later be dean of medicine at the University of Virginia, ...

Anita Say Chan, an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has authored a new book that identifies how the eugenics movement ...

Before I tell you about this historical, shocking and true story of eugenics in the United States, “Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck,” let me tell ...

In November 1900, Jane Stanford forced the resignation of the noted progressive economist Edward A. Ross from the faculty of the university that bears her surname. The Ross incident has since become a ...

THE NEXT AGE OF MAN—Albert Edward Wiggam — Bobbs-Merrill ($3). “Plainly, it is a crisis in the affairs of human beings.” It is a time not far distant, according to Author Wiggam, when the two hormones ...

When one thinks of sociopolitical movements from history that were intended to champion racial superiority, what most likely comes to mind first, and rightfully so, are the efforts by Nazi Germany to ...