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The Purifying Knife

The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas

2025

The University of Oklahoma Press

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Tornado over the Texas capitol building.

The History of Eugenics in Texas Isn’t What You Think

A new book unearths a chapter of the state’s story when anti-intellectual fundamentalism was put to good ends.

by Gus Bova via Texas Observer on July 14, 2025

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