This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On Sept. 2, in a comment from the White House aimed at justifying sending federal troops into Baltimore, President ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. participation in eugenics – the pseudoscientific field predicated on the belief that humanity’s gene pool can be improved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These are just a few examples of the influence of eugenics in the early 20th century. The idea of scientist Francis Galton, ...

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 ...

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In the twenty-first century United States, laws and social relationships continue to be shaped and reinforced by stark distinctions between different racial groups. Eugenics and public health ...

Everybody knows Khan Noonien Singh. He’s one of the most famous Star Trek characters who isn’t a starship crewmember. But he’s also the poster boy for eugenics, the notion that you can improve the ...

It cannot be called a Connecticut secret, but it is at least a little-known fact that the state — specifically Gov. Wilbur L. Cross, for whom the parkway and at least one high school were named — ...

For the first time, a Canadian university — the University of Guelph — is reconciling with its history of teaching eugenics. Few universities in Canada have looked closely at their historical ...

NC’s eugenics campaign Over 30 states in the U.S. enacted eugenic sterilization laws, she learned, but North Carolina carried out the third-highest number of sterilizations in the nation, after ...

Virginia governor Mark Warner apologized publicly early in May for “Virginia's participation in eugenics,” alluding specifically to a now-repudiated 1924 law endorsing involuntary sterilization.