eugenics

For much of the twentieth century, African Americans embraced eugenics as a means of racial improvement.

It's impossible to revisit the history of America's quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse.

When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”.

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

The U.S. purposefully infected thousands of Guatemalans with sexually-transmitted diseases in the 40s and 50s. Their grandchildren still carry the trauma.

Isaiah Bowman was one of the worst college presidents in American history.

Robert A. Millikan was once a beloved figure in American science. In 2021, his name was removed from buildings and awards. What happened?

The Smithsonian museum’s collection of human remains contains dozens of brains from vulnerable Washington, D.C., residents, many taken without consent.

The Smithsonian’s human brains collection was led by Ales Hrdlicka, a museum curator in the 1900s who believed that White people were superior.

On Audrey Clare Farley’s “Girls and Their Monsters.”

Two new books reveal the story of Stanford University’s early years to be rife with corruption, autocracy, incompetence, white supremacy, and murder.

The National Genealogical Society is one of the oldest, largest groups dedicated to helping families trace their ancestries.

How did a field meant to reclaim genetics from Nazi abuses wind up a haven for race science?

A new history examines Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, the West Coast's settler ideology, and recent turbulence in the world of tech.

The author's personal history with the dolls, and an argument for American Girl to make a new doll with a disability.

We want to acknowledge — and learn from — our history.

In 2018, Gerber selected baby Lucas as the winner of its Spokesbaby Contest, making Lucas the first Gerber baby with Down syndrome.

Why Barnum Brown could not stop collecting.

The Southern Baptist Convention is tearing itself apart over its leaders’ long-running cover-up of abusers in its ranks. But there’s a deeper reckoning below.

The two may seem unconnected, but a centuries-long history of panic about White birth rates binds them together.