Eugenics Movement in the Yahoo! Directory

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 [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
Eugenics Record Office Records, 1670-1964
Documenting the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation.
www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/e/ero.htm
Ancient Eugenics
Essay by Allen G. Roper, exploring eugenics.
www.plausiblefutures.com/index.php?id=54552
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
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
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
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
Perfecting Mankind: Eugenics and Photography (PDF)
Exhibit looking at the beginning of eugenics and the role that photography played in illustrating its ideas.
www.icp.org/exhibitions/eugenics/perfecting_mankind.pdf
Taking Eugenics Seriously: Three Generations of ??? are Enough? (PDF)
Examines a recent milepost in the history of genetics, the sequencing of the human genome, and another in the history of eugenics, the governmental apology for eugenic abuses.
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/bio-ethics/takingeugenicsseriously.p...
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