With every new advance in prenatal genetic screening, the ability to prevent suffering has also sparked difficult questions. These fears arise, in part, because just 100 years ago, that’s exactly what the eugenics movement tried to do.
Besides inventing Corn Flakes, John Kellogg helped promote the American Eugenics movement.
Watch Chapter 1 of The Eugenics Crusade.
In 1910, Charles Davenport opened Eugenics Record Office to collect hereditary information on American families.
Watch a preview for the film The Crash of 1929.
Browse some photographs from “the age of permanent prosperity.”
By the turn of the 18th century, the British have taken over the colony and dismantled the barrier, turning it into a paved lane called Wall Street.
Stock Exchange clerks share their insights on the days spent on Wall Street.
Was optimism to blame? Historian Robert Sobel and Economist John Kenneth Galbraith share their experiences.
Family members share the opulant lifestyle of their lifestyles and the lows that followed after the crash of 1929.
Throughout 1929 daily papers reported that the future looked bright for investors — even after the devastating market crash in October.
In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill.
