The Eugenics Survey in Vermont: Roots (1900-1925)

To learn more about the authors of these documents, their ideas and programs:

Blackwell, Lyn. "The Politics of Public Health: Medical Inspection and School Nursing in Vermont, 1910-1923." Vermont History (Winter-Spring, 2000): 58-84.

Carlisle, Lillian Baker. "William J. Van Patten: His Life and Times." Chittenden County Historical Society Bulletin (Winter, 2000): 2-14.

D'Agostino, Lorenzo. The History of Public Welfare in Vermont. Winooski: St. Micheal's College Press, 1948.

Dunham, Paul C. Vermont State Administrative Agencies. Burlington: Government Research Center, University of Vermont, 1965.

Gallagher, Nancy L. Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999.

Hand, Samuel B., Jeffery Marshall, and Gregory D. Sanford. "Little Republics: The Structure of State Politics in Vermont, 1854-1920." Vermont History 53 (Summer, 1985): 141-166.

Hoffbeck, Steven R. " 'Remember the Poor' (Galations 2:10): Poor Farms in Vermont." Vermont History 57 no. 4 (Fall, 1989): 226-240.

Rebek, Andrea. "The Selling of Vermont: From Agriculture to Tourism, 1860-1910." Vermont History (Winter, 1976): 14-27.

Sherman, Michael. "The Spanish Influenza in Vermont. 1918-1919." Unpublished manuscript. Contact The Vermont Historical Society.

True, Marshall. "Middle Class Women and Civic Improvement in Burlington, 1865-1890." Vermont History (Spring, 1988): 112-27.

Webster, L. Josephine. The Vermont Children's Aid Society, Inc.: The First Fifteen Years 1919-1934. Burlington: Queen City Printers, 1964.

Wilson, Harold Fisher. The Hill Country of Northern New England: Its Social and Economic History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Montpelier: Vermont Historical Society, 1947.


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