Even as a young girl, the shadow of a dark history hung over Orlice Hodges. At seven years old, she remembers her grandmother offering an explanation — chilling in retrospect — of what happened to ...

Less than a 100 years ago, the practice of sterilizing Americans seen as unfit was widespread. A new book, “Imbeciles,” looks at the issue through one heart-rending 1927 court case that collects so ...

Introduction: Eugenics and the Modern World / Philippa Levine & Alison Bashford -- PART ONE: TRANSNATIONAL THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF EUGENICS -- The Darwinian Context: Evolution and Inheritance / Diane ...

Glenn Beck likes to give history lessons. His desk is strewn with books. “Read history!” he’ll holler into the camera. He’s even got a blackboard and chalk. I once had a high-school history teacher ...

The Eugenics at Stanford History Project, a group primarily seeking to unveil historical ties between Stanford and the American eugenics movement, has filed the first-ever request to rename Jordan ...

MONTPELIER — A former U-32 student is back in Vermont to make a movie about the state’s infamous eugenics era. Luke Becker-Lowe, fellow film students from Emerson College in Boston and a cast of 20 ...

The September 12, 2003 issue of The Jewish Press carried an article by Edwin Black tarring the American eugenics movement with the brush of National Socialism and genocide. In Israel itself many ...

According to students and professors, the mark of eugenics has not left campus — and has instead manifested itself into Yale’s curriculum. Many of the names inscribed on science classroom slides, ...

When historian Elizabeth Catte moved to Staunton, a small city in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, in 2016, her daily commute took her past the original site of Western State Hospital, which was then ...

This story was published in partnership with The 74, a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America. Even as a young girl, the shadow of a dark history hung over Orlice Hodges. At ...

Orlice “Lisa” Hodges clutches an educational brochure about North Carolinas’ eugenics program on August 5, 2021, in Raleigh. As a young woman, Hodges was told by relatives that her aunt was “fixed”- a ...