Besides inventing Corn Flakes, John Kellogg helped promote the American Eugenics movement.
Watch Chapter 1 of The Eugenics Crusade.
Pulitzer prize winner & Nobel laureate, Eugene O’Neill revolutionized the American stage.
Watch chapter 1 of The Circus, part two.
In 1910, Charles Davenport opened Eugenics Record Office to collect hereditary information on American families.
The sale of Jumbo the African elephant to P.T. Barnum by the London Zoological Society caused an uproar in England.
Watch the government film produced by the Army Air Forces in 1945 and narrated by Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan.
"Take no prisoners. Fight to the bitter end." Those were everyday words to combat troops.
Watch a preview for the film The Crash of 1929.
Howard Dully discusses the lobotomy that Walter Freeman performed on him when he was 12.
Angelene Forester remembers Walter Freeman's first patient — her mother Ellen Ionesco.
Janice Jones-Thomson looks back on the lobotomy done to her mother, Beulah Jones.