The Continuum of Eugenics Practice...
Francis Galton, the English scientist who coined the term, defined eugenics as “the agencies under social control that improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.” Charles Davenport, the father of the American eugenics movement called it simply...Eugenics Archive Extremes...
The Nobel announcements always get people buzzing here at CSHL. This week was particularly exciting because Carol Greider, one of the Physiology or Medicine winners, graced the Lab campus for some years. As another example of science leaked into the mainstream, I learned about a NOVA dramatization on...
This blog is associated with the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement web site. There you can explore documents and photographs of the Eugenics movement from the early decades of the 20th century.