Eras: 1917–1929

1917–1929

Veto of Pennsylvania Eugenics Law

Harry Hamilton Laughlin, Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (Chicago: Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court of Chicago, December 1922), 35–36. Laughlin’s book was a compendium of legislation, veto messages,

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1917–1929

Eugenics as a New Creed

Stanley Hall, “Eugenics: Its Ideals and What It Is Going to Do,” Religious Education 6, 2 (June 1911): 152–159. This excerpt is from pages 156–159. G. Stanley Hall (1846–1924) was

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1917–1929

Shall the Fundamentalists Win?

“Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”1 This morning we are to think of the Fundamentalist controversy which threatens to divide the American churches, as though already they were not sufficiently split and

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