TO DO OVER THE NEXT FEW MINUTES IS TELL YOU ABOUT AMERICAN EUGENICS STARTING WITH EUGENICS ITSELF. BUT LET'S BACKTRACK HERE FOR JUST A SECOND....

GOOD. HERE IS THE EPITOME OF GREATNESS AND MASCULINE FIT. HERE IS A PHYSICALLY AND RACIALLY FIT IF NOT ALMOST PERFECT MALE ENGAGED IN HEROIC ACTION....

THANK YOU. EVERY $400 OF YOUR MONEY GOES TO THE CARE OF PERSONS WITH BAD HEREDITY. EVERY 16 SECONDS ONE PERSON IS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES AND THIS...

WE? WE ARE IN MONTANA. HOW MANY STATES? THERE ARE A LOT OF STATES THAT HAVE THESE STERILIZATIONS GOING ON UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF STATE STATUTE AND...

ABOUT EUGENICS TODAY IN EUGENICS IS VERY BAD ODOR. IT'S A NAME, A TERM THAT BASICALLY PROVOKES REVULSION AMONG MANY PEOPLE. BUT UNDERSTAND THAT MANY...

ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. SO THE INTERESTING QUESTION FOR HISTORIAN IS TO TRY TO EXPLAIN HOW YOU GET FROM THOSE VIRGINIA ENACTMENTS FROM THE FAMILY WORLD WHO...

QUESTION. ANYONE WANT TO TAKE A STAB AT THAT? >> CAN I? >>

BASED OFF WHAT HAPPENED IN GERMANY I WOULD SAY IT WASN'T BASED ON FEAR BUT THEY PLAYED OFF PEOPLE'S FEAR TO GET SUPPORT OF THAT. AND THAT'S WHAT I...

SOME CULTURAL EXAMPLES THAT I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IN THE CONTEXT OF EUGENICS. BUT YOU THINK IN SOME WAYS IT'S KIND OF COMING BACK LIKE THE SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE...

HE SAID, TOO, IF ANYONE WAS FAMILIAR WITH THE BOOK FREAKONOMICS, THEY MAD A DOCUMENTARY, THE THEORY THAT CRIME HAS DROPPED OVER THE DECADES BECAUSE...

INTERESTING. IT'S -- IT'S IN PART CLASS-DRIVEN BECAUSE THE ARGUMENT IS IF YOU MADE IT TO A CERTAIN LEVEL OF INCOME, THAT'S BECAUSE OF A CERTAIN KIND...

PROGRESS. >> [ INAUDIBLE ]. THE IDEA THAT A LOT OF THE WAR VETS [ INAUDIBLE ]. >> WHAT AN INTERESTING QUESTION. >> [ INAUDIBLE ]. >>

TALKING ABOUT PROGRESS AND THIS ASPECT OF BEING AN OPTIMISM-TYPE DRIVEN MOVEMENT TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU THINK PROGRESSIVISM PLAYS IN THINK EUGENICS MOVEMENT?...

WAIT. SORRY. NOT PROGRESSIVISM. PRAGMATISM. >> PRAGMATISM. >> TALKING ABOUT THAT LAST WEEK. >>

EUGENICS TOOK HOLD IN RURAL AMERICA? >> NO, I WOULDN'T SAY IT

INTERESTED IN IS WHAT -- HOW EUGENICIST WOULD RESPOND TO LIKE THE ARGUMENT THAT IT'S ALL ABOUT LIKE EXPECTATIONS AND HOW FAR YOU CAN DRIVE YOURSELF. LIKE...

EUGENICISTS AFRICAN-AMERICANS? >> THEY TENDED TO BE. >> DID THEY SEAL THEM

SOCIETY? >> YES. IT WAS INTERESTING, THEY ARGUE ABOUT DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS AND HIGHER ARC I CANS OF ETHNICITY AND RACE. YES, MOST -- MOST EUGENICISTS...

PEOPLE ARE POOR ARE BAD RELATES -- >> WHEN SOMEONE LIKE

REFLECT MORE HUMANITARIAN VALUES. IS THAT REFLECTED IN OTHER ASPECTS OF AMERICAN THOUGHT AND CULTURE? IS THERE A PERIOD IN WHICH WE SHIFT AWAY FROM...

IS ON THE RISE IN THE '30s WHICH MAKES ME THINK MORE COMMUNITARIAN VALUES ARE ON THE RISE. >> THE COMMUNISTS, LOOK

ABOUT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALISM AND THE COMMUNITARIAN, I WOULD THINK IT WOULD LEAD TO THE COMMUNITARIAN. AS A WHITE PERSON WE EXPECT THESE...

THEM LIKE INDIVIDUALS YOU'RE NOW PART OF THIS GROUP THAT IDENTIFIES WHO YOU ARE AND THEN THERE'S JUST A NOTION THAT THE EXPERTS THAT DECIDE WHO IS...

THAT IDEA OF INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS COMMUNITARIANISM WOULD EQUAL -- EUGENICS ALMOST PLAYS OUT IN A POPULAR PHILOSOPHER LIKE IAN RAND OR SOMETHING. BECAUSE...

OFF OF WHAT HE WAS SAYING. IN LIGHT OF US TALKING ABOUT THE SCOPES TRIAL AND THE EUGENICS ARTICLE, IT'S REALLY INTERESTING LOOKING AT THE ARTICLE THAT...

IS COMPLICATED BECAUSE HE ALSO BELIEVES IN THIS IDEA OF A TALENTED TENTH. HE THINKS IT'S POSSIBLE FOR A PERCENTAGE OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO LEAD, TO...

LIKE THE LOGIC OF EUGENICS, IT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA TO HELP THE LOWER CLASS GENETICALLY OF SOCIETY. CHARITY WOULD BE BAD. DOES THAT PLAY INTO SOCIAL DARWINISM?...

WERE TARGETED MORE FOR NEGATIVE EUGENICS? >>

LULL I -- THE WOMAN'S USUALLY THE ONE RECEIVING. >> SO THEY ARE

HAVE BEEN BLAME FORD PREGNANCIES, THE SCARLET LETTER. >> OKAY. >> THIS IDEA OF WEAKER SEX. >> WELL, WEAKER AND IN

BECAUSE THEY'RE VEHICLES FOR REPRODUCTION, THAT'S A COARSE WORD. A MAN CAN BE AS, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER AS HE WANTS BUT IT REQUIRES A WOMAN, YOU KNOW,...

OF EUGENICS NEGATIVELY, IT ALSO SEEMS LIKE WOMEN WERE TARGETED BY POSITIVE EUGENICS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT MARY WATTS ORGANIZING WOMEN'S HEALTH THINGS....

HOW THE WHOLE EUGENICS MOVEMENT RELATED TO RELIGION. BACK IN 1920s MOST PEOPLE WERE RELIGIOUS. TRADITIONALLY, DISCRIMINATION WAS BASED ON RACE AND...

IT. WHAT ELSE IS THERE IN CALVINISM? >> THE IDEA OF SITTING

THERE. THERE'S THAT REFORM SENSE. BUT WHO ARE THE -- IF YOU'RE A CAL VANNIST, PREDESTINATION IS WHAT? WHO IS PREDESTINED? >> GOD KNOWS. >> GOD KNOWS

ELECT HERE WITHIN EUGENICS, THERE IS THIS KIND OF ELECT, BUT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY GOD. THERE'S SOMETHING IN OUR NATURE, SOMETHING IN OUR GENES, THE...

THAT ONE THING TO BEAR IN MIND ABOUT EUGENICS, OKAY, THE OPERATIVE WORD FOR THE EUGENICISTS REALLY IS TIED TO COERCION, OKAY. THE STATE HAS THE RIGHT...

SOMEBODY DRAWN BY -- DRAWN INTO THE EUGENICS WORLD. IT DEPENDS ON REALLY HOW YOU POSITION YOURSELF AND HOW YOU THINK ABOUT ALL SORTS OF INTERESTING THINGS...

A RESPONSE IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. BUT LET'S JUST SAY IT WOULD BE A HELL OF AN INTERESTING EXHIBIT. SO THANK YOU GUYS VERY, VERY MUCH. WONDERFUL QUESTIONS....