Spring 1924 was the high water mark for the Eugenics Record Office, a Cold Spring Harbor research facility whose staff hoped to use selective breeding to engineer the human race. The work is now ...

Introduction: Eugenics and the Modern World / Philippa Levine & Alison Bashford -- PART ONE: TRANSNATIONAL THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF EUGENICS -- The Darwinian Context: Evolution and Inheritance / Diane ...

(AP) – Q: WHAT HAPPENED IN NORTH CAROLINA? A: Under the state’s eugenics program, which began in 1929, more than 7,600 people underwent sterilizations. Some procedures were forced to weed out the ...

Notorious today as the founding father of eugenics, Francis Galton was honored as one of the leading scientists of his day. With this article we begin an occasional series, “Eugenics Again,” which ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Eugenics, or the pseudoscience of human breeding, reached the height of its notoriety in the early 1900s but never truly disappeared, according to a new book that examines the ...

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 ...

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research laboratory, is located on Long Island, New York, where I live. Its outrageous history is detailed in a forthcoming book, “Long Island and the ...

“Degenerate” will be performed September 11 to 13 and September 18-20 at the Staunton-Augusta Art Center. Photos by Rebecca J. Barnabi. During dark times in the Queen City, some community members wore ...