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1 day ago · The book The Passing of the Great Race (Or, The Racial Basis of European History) by American eugenicist, lawyer, and amateur anthropologist Madison Grant was published in 1916. Although subsequently influential, the book was largely ignored when it first appeared, and it went through several revisions and editions.
- Eugenics in The United States
Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at...
- Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI (/ ˈ ɡ ɔː l t ən /; 16 February...
- New Eugenics
New eugenics, also known as liberal eugenics (a term coined...
- The Howard Foundation
Methuselah's Children is a science fiction novel by American...
- Eugenics in The United States
May 9, 2024 · One core member of this group, the New York lawyer Madison Grant, aroused considerable pro-eugenic interest through his best-selling book The Passing of the Great Race (1916). Beginning in 1920, a series of congressional hearings was held to identify problems that immigrants were causing the United States.
- Eugenics is the selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans. The term e...
- Eugenics was supported by many scientific authorities and political leaders by the time of World War I. However, it ultimately failed as a science...
- The American eugenics movement gave rise to laws that mandated the sterilization of—by some estimates—as many as 60,000 disabled people in more tha...
2 days ago · The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. [1] Such laws remained in force until 1965. [2]
5 days ago · Herod I [2] [3] [a] or Herod the Great ( c. 72 BCE – c. 4 BCE) was a Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian Kingdom of Judea. [4] [5] [6] He is known for his colossal building projects throughout Judea. Among these works are the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and the expansion of its base [7] [8] [9] —the Western Wall being ...
May 25, 2024 · Aristotle (born 384 bce, Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece—died 322, Chalcis, Euboea) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, one of the greatest intellectual figures of Classical antiquity and Western history.
- Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived and the first genuine scientist in history. He made pioneering contributions to all f...
- After his father died about 367 BCE, Aristotle journeyed to Athens, where he joined the Academy of Plato. He left the Academy upon Plato’s death ab...
- Aristotle’s most famous teacher was Plato (c. 428–c. 348 BCE), who himself had been a student of Socrates (c. 470–399 BCE). Socrates, Plato, and Ar...
- Aristotle wrote as many as 200 treatises and other works covering all areas of philosophy and science. Of those, none survives in finished form. Th...
- Aristotle’s thought was original, profound, wide-ranging, and systematic. It eventually became the intellectual framework of Western Scholasticism,...
1952-, 1965-: undoing of old immigration laws by the same "big interests" - and the true "passing of the great race". Despite the unscientific propaganda espoused by Grant, Osborn, and allies, the 1924 anti-immigration act was passed. After World War II things would move into the opposite extreme.
May 7, 2024 · Attila (died 453) was the king of the Huns from 434 to 453 (ruling jointly with his elder brother Bleda until 445). He was one of the greatest of the barbarian rulers who assailed the Roman Empire, invading the southern Balkan provinces and Greece and then Gaul and Italy. In legend, he appears under the name Etzel in the Nibelungenlied and ...
