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• Background & Purpose
• Content, Use of Materials
• Authors, Sponsors, Participating Repositories, Consultants
• Contacts

• What is Eugenics? Past and Present Perspectives
• Introduction
• 1890s-1930: Eugenics in the Progressive Era: Science & Social Planning
• 1930s-1940s: American Eugenics Reform: "New Eugenics"
• Post World War II: "Modern Eugenics"
• 1990s-2000: Recovering Eugenics History: Recognition & Regret

• The Eugenics Survey of Vermont
• An Overview
• Introduction: What was the Survey?
  
• 1925-1928: The Search for "Bad Heredity" in Vermont
• 1928-1931 The Vermont Commission on Country Life: "Pride in Place & Ancestry" The "Human Factor": "The People of Vermont" & "The Handicapped"
• The 1930s
• The Eugenics Survey in Vermont: Roots (1900-1925)
• What came before the Survey?
  
• Additional resources on the authors of these documents, their ideas, and programs
• Origin 1925
• How did the actual Survey begin?
  
• Participants and Partners 
• Biographical information
• Inside the Survey: Plans, Problems, and Strategies
• Minutes, memos, newsletters, and correspondence, in chronological order
• Studies
• Family Studies of the Rural Poor
• Louis' Story : A Case from the Eugenic Survey's
• National Committee on Mental Hygiene: Survey of Vermont School Children 1927
• Key Family Study 1928-29
• Women at the Rutland Reformatory: "Miss Ross' Girls" (1929)
• Brandon Waiting List (1929)
• Migration Study (1930-31)
• Ethnic Study of Burlington (1932-1936)
• Publicity and Public Education on Eugenics
• Publicizing the accomplishments of the Eugenics Survey
• Eugenics in Law and Public Policy
• Introduction
• Agencies of Social Control, 1915-1950
• Sexual Sterilization, 1913-1978

• Survey Office and Library
• Select bibliography of materials housed in the original Eugenics Survey office
• Search the Archive
• Search facilities for both the web narrative and the original documents
• Glossary
• Definition of terms and abbreviations used in the Survey
• Resources
• Bibliography
• Suggestions for Teachers