In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution, a sinister ideology took root — eugenics. It was an attempt to impose political control upon humanity’s unruly DNA by ...

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 ...

Science is one of the biggest reasons why humans have progressed over the years, from the discovery of fire to the creation of the internet. Science is a truly fascinating subject; however, there are ...

In the United States, eugenics was used to justify slavery and overall racist attitudes against African Americans, as well as ...

Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States. An advocate for women’s reproductive rights who ...

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 ...

No one will admit it, of course, and no honorable scientist will say that current research on the inheritance of social or behavioral traits perpetuates the old notions of eugenics. Yet in the last ...

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, ...

Everyone, from celebrities like Doja Cat to the White House’s communications team, has reacted to the viral American Eagle “great jeans” campaign starring “Euphoria” actress Sydney Sweeney. The ...

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 ...

In 1910, the renowned biologist Charles B. Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a biomedical research and education center on Long Island, New York. His ...

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 ...