eugenics

A "test tube baby" grapples with the dark corners of 20th century reproductive technologies.

Strengthening family ties has been key to overcoming nativism — and in 2020, it can do so again.

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

As a Native person, I believe “This Land Is Your Land” falls flat.

A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.

Science doesn’t make you magically objective, and it’s not separate from the rest of human experience.

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it.

Reviving race science plays into centuries of oppression.

Doctors who sterilized Carrie Buck said she was a “feeble-minded” woman whose future offspring posed a threat to society. Her life paints a different picture.

What is a small, historically-minded community meant to do with something like Western State Hospital?

How Charles Murray stopped worrying and learned to love racism.

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.

Medicine’s dark history helps explain why black mothers are dying at alarming rates.

A profile of Hannah Mayer Stone, one of the key figures in the struggle to make contraception safe, effective, and widely available.

"Hillbilly Elegy" has been used to explain the 2016 election, but its logic is rooted in a dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.

State-sanctioned efforts to keep the incarcerated from reproducing began in the early 20th century and continue today.

Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress decided that there needed to be severe limits on who was coming into the country.

On the Oneida Community, a radical religious organization practicing “Bible communism,” and eventually, manufacturing silverware.

The long, sad history of accusing women who seek power and influence of ugliness and ill health.