The former “Mead Memorial Chapel” on the Middlebury College campus in Vermont. (Emily Power) This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which ...

Scientists need to get used to the idea that they have responsibilities that go beyond the laboratory, or beyond their latest research paper, say Professors Hadley Horch and Barry Logan. A number of ...

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 ...

Amid the glorious history of our country, there have been dark clouds, shameful events that fell short of the founding ideals, including: slavery, the bloody War Between the States, the denial of ...

Every day, Elizabeth Catte drove by Staunton’s old Western State Hospital, which was being renovated and given a new life. Others in town were excited about the luxurious Blackburn Inn & Conference ...

It is often a misfortune for any good movement to become a fad. When this happens it is pretty sure to enlist the support of that object of Mr. Roosevelt's wholesome dread, the 'fool reformer.' And ...

Warning: This post contains explicit language. When President Donald Trump, frustrated during a bipartisan immigration meeting in the White House, reportedly asked last month why the U.S. was ...

"Eugenics seeks to improve by eliminating the characteristics considered at a particular time and place to be disadvantages and to maximize those considered normal." When you purchase through links on ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in PreTerm-Cleveland v. McCloud upheld an Ohio law forbidding doctors from knowingly performing an abortion on an unborn child diagnosed with Down ...

On Sept. 2, in a comment from the White House aimed at justifying sending federal troops into Baltimore, President Trump said this about his targets: "These are hard-core criminals. ...They're not ...

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