- Wikipedia: Eugenics
- Offers a brief history of the 20th century movement. - Eugenics Archive
- Materials from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbour, which was the centre of American eugenics research from 1910-1940. Includes reports, articles, charts, and pedigrees that were considered scientific "facts" in their day. - Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program
- A five-part multimedia presentation on the state-sponsored eugenics programme of North Carolina that lasted from 1933-1974. Presented by JournalNow & The Winston-Salem Journal. - Eugenics Watch
- Introduction to the pseudo science that is dedicated to the proposition that all men are created unequal. - Ancient Eugenics
- Essay by Allen G. Roper, exploring eugenics. - 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. - 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¿. - Eugenics Record Office Records, 1670-1964
- Documenting the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation. - 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. - 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 organised feminism in the 1890s. - 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. - Vermont Eugenics: A Documentary History
- Looks at how eugenics took root and flourished during the first half of the 20th century. - Perfecting Mankind: Eugenics and Photography
(PDF) - Exhibit looking at the beginning of eugenics and the role that photography played in illustrating its ideas. - 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. - DNA Interactive: Chronicle
- Examines the past failings of eugenics, a movement that wound up advocating forced sterilization. - 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. - 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 Centre for Science, History, Politics, and Ethics.
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