May 5, 2000
A Web Site on the Eugenics Movement Documents a Dark History
The Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement opens with George Santayana's famous statement: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The World Wide Web site illuminates a dark chapter of American scientific history -- a time when an obsession with heredity and social cleanliness led to racial discrimination and forced sterilizations. Such campaigns are usually associated with Nazi Germany, not the United States in the late 19th and early 20th
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