As Gloria Steinem pointed out in a 1998 essay for TIME, Sanger’s embrace of the eugenics rhetoric may have been less a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, NYC, 1922. The American Eugenics Society had its first headquarters in a building on the site of what is now City Hall. At the first gathering, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert A. Millikan, right, shares a light moment on the Caltech campus in 1931 with physicists Albert Einstein, center, and A.A.

Adam Rutherford is a geneticist and author who just wrote a new book about the history of eugenics, and he tells NPR's Rebecca Ramirez that the political ideology is not just a relic of the past, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...