Profs and Pints Northern Virginia presents: "Eugenics Then and Now,” on a dangerous movement in science and its lessons for ...

Photo: This family was awarded Honorable Mention, Large Family Class, as part of a eugenics exhibit at a Kansas fair in 1923. The term eugenics comes from the Greek roots for "good" and "generation" ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rose DeChaine arrived at the Minnesota School for the Feeble-Minded in Faribault in August 1924. State officials had received ...

In today’s public discourse, the use of terms like “animals” and “apes” to refer to members of historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups strikes a painful chord. In a related manner (though ...

One hundred and sixty years ago this month, the Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel presented his experiments on pea plants to a group of scientists in Brno, Moravia, in which he offered a revolutionary ...

Well, it’s time to dust off the old philosophy of ethics textbook. This week’s program takes a look at the Eugenics movement in the United States with Michael Rembis, Director of the Center for ...

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 ...