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Tag Archives: Ellsworth Huntington

Ellsworth Huntington’s Fantastic Stories of Racial Superiority and Relative Humidity

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurApril 17, 20111 Comment

April 17, 2011 Ellsworth Huntington was one of the early twentieth century’s most prolific science writers. The author of 28 books, contributor to 29 others and author of more than 240 articles, [1] Huntington was a climatic determinist who held that geography was the “basis for history.” [2] Civilization according to Huntington owed its rise…

H. W. Conn’s ‘Communistic’ Challenge to Eugenics

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurAugust 21, 20091 Comment

August 21, 2009 Between 1907 and 1914, 12 states passed eugenic sterilization laws. As Paul A. Lombardo details so well in Three Generations, No Imbeciles, enactment of these statutes was driven by a realtively small number of lawmakers, self-promoting policy enthusiasts and a new class of bureaucrats, the directors of institutions for the “feebleminded.” These…

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