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  • Eugenics Archive [*]
    Materials from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, which was the center of American eugenics research from 1910-1940. Includes reports, articles, charts, and pedigrees that were considered scientific "facts" in their day.
    www.eugenicsarchive.org
  • Wikipedia: Eugenics
    Offers a brief history of the 20th century movement.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
  • Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program [pick] [read review]
    A five-part multimedia presentation on the state-sponsored eugenics program of North Carolina that lasted from 1933-1974. Presented by JournalNow & The Winston-Salem Journal.
    againsttheirwill.journalnow.com
  • Eugenics Watch
    Introduction to the pseudo science that is dedicated to the proposition that all men are created unequal.
    www.eugenics-watch.com
  • Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
    Deadly Medicine is a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit that shows how the Nazi Regime under Adolf Hitler aimed to change the genetic make-up of the population through measures known as ?racial hygiene?.
    www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine
  • Ancient Eugenics
    Essay by Allen G. Roper, exploring eugenics.
    www.plausiblefutures.com/index.php?id=54552
  • Roots of the I.Q. Debate: Eugenics and Social Control
    Emphasizes that the roots of the eugenics movement can be traced to the 19th-century scientific racism movement.
    www.publiceye.org/magazine/v09n1/eugenics.html
  • Catholic Encyclopedia: The Church and Eugenics
    Discuses the Catholic view of the social movement focused on human heredity started by Sir Francis Galton in the early 1900s.
    www.newadvent.org/cathen/16038b.htm
  • Secret History of the Dismal Science, The: Eugenics and the Amoralization of Economics
    Looks at the connection between the rise of eugenics and the attacks on classical political economy in the nineteenth century.
    www.econlib.org/library/Columns/LevyPeartdismal6.html
  • Eugenic Feminisms in Late Nineteenth-Century America: Reading Race in Victoria Woodhull, Frances Willard, Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells
    Essay examining the American intersections of eugenic discourse and organized feminism in the 1890s.
    www.genders.org/g31/g31_athey.html
  • Vermont Eugenics: A Documentary History
    Looks at how eugenics took root and flourished during the first half of the 20th century.
    www.uvm.edu/~eugenics
  • Eugenics Part I: You Can't Keep a Good Idiot Down
    Provides both a humorous and scathing critique of the eugenics movement in the U.S.
    www.historyhouse.com/in_history/eugenics_1
  • DNA Interactive: Chronicle
    Examines the past failings of eugenics, a movement that wound up advocating forced sterilization.
    www.dnai.org/e/index.html
  • Eugenics in California
    Explores the history of the eugenics movement in 20th century California, which supported practices such as involuntary sterilization and racially-biased IQ testing. From the Center for Science, History, Politics, and Ethics.
    www.csus.edu/cshpe/eugenics
 



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