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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. participation in eugenics – the pseudoscientific field predicated on the belief that humanity’s gene pool can be improved through selective breeding – remains opaque almost 100 years after ...

ROCHESTER — Drs. William and Charles Mayo are known as medicine’s dynamic duo, talented surgeons and founders of Mayo Clinic who turned a small rural town into a worldwide medical mecca. But the ...

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 “feebleminded” while others were a voluntary ...

When interviewing Mercedes de Guardiola about her book “Vermont for the Vermonters: The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State,” I thanked her for having ruined my previous weekend. While the ...

American aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974) makes a controversial radio broadcast from Washington, advocating Canadian neutrality in World War II, 24th October 1939. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton ...

Among the dubious points that U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk makes in his recent ruling suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of mifepristone is that abortion is part of ...