On Wednesday, three undergraduates presented their research on Yale’s relationship with eugenics at the The Legacies of Eugenics in New England Conference: Part 1, hosted by the Hutchins Center for ...

The study of eugenics wasn’t born on Long Island — it’s closer to say it went through puberty there. The idea of eugenics — a pseudoscience that promoted the idea that certain people or groups should ...

A marker in Indianapolis describes the history of a 1907 Indiana eugenics law (Radharc Images/Alamy). This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the ...

To encourage scientists to speak up when people misuse science to serve political agendas, biology professor Mark Peifer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that eugenics should ...

Theodore Dru Alison “Theo” Cockerell was one of the early 20th-century’s best-known entomologists. Widely considered the foremost expert on bees, he was a prolific writer and researcher, and professor ...

Several decades before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis took the notion of “purifying” society to genocidal extremes in the Holocaust, the ideas behind it were enthusiastically embraced in Vermont. Eugenics ...

According to students and professors, the mark of eugenics has not left campus — and has instead manifested itself into Yale’s curriculum. Many of the names inscribed on science classroom slides, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, NYC, 1922. The American Eugenics Society ...