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Ashburner, Catherine. “Shirley Farr,” in Those Indomitable Vermont Women. Williston Vermont: Vermont State Division of the American Association of University Women, 1999, pp. 14-42.

Bergman, Harold, and Vonda Bergman. “These Are Our Own: The Vermont Children’s Aid Society Comes of Age.” Vermonter 45 no. 8 (1940):  183-88.

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

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Calloway, Colin G. "Surviving the Dark Ages: Vermont Abenakis During the Contact Period."  Vermont History  58 no. 2 (1990):  70-81.

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.

Daniels, Robert D., ed., The University of Vermont:  The First Two Hundred Years.   Hanover:  University Press of New England, 1991.

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-----.  "Gypsies in Vermont?"  Warren Sussman Memorial Graduate History Conference,  Piscataway, NJ, 7 April, 1990.

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-----.  "The Natural Sciences and George Henry Perkins." The University of Vermont:  The First Two Hundred Years.  Ed. Robert V. Daniels.  Hanover: University Press  of New England, 1991.

-----.  Lewis Creek Lost and Found.  Hanover:  University Press of New England, 2001.

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Flint, K. R. B.  Poor Relief in Vermont.  Northfield: Norwich University, 1916.

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

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Goldman, Harold A.  “He Had No Right:  Sex, Law, and the Courts in Vermont, 1777-1920.”  Ph.D. dissertation,  University of Massachusetts, 2000.

Graff, Nancy Price, Ed.  Celebrating Vermont: Myths and Realities.  Hanover, NH:  University Press of New England, 1991.

Graffagnino, J. Kevin, Samuel B. Hand, and Gene Sessions.  Vermont Voices, 1606 through the 1990s:  A Documentary History of the Green Mountain State. Montpelier: Vermont Historical Society, 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.

Haviland, William A., and Marjory W. Power.  The Original Vermonters:  Native  Inhabitants Past and Present.  Hanover:  University Press of New England, 1994.

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

Kincheloe, Marcia R., and Herbert G. Hunt, Jr.  Empty Beds:  A History of the Vermont State Hospital.  Barre, Vt.: Marcia Kinchloe, 1989.

Lund, John M.  "Vermont Nativism: William Paul Dillingham and the U.S. Immigration  Legislation."  Vermont History  63 no. 1 (Winter, 1995): 15-29.

Moody, John.  "The Impact of Eugenics on Abenaki Families in Vermont."  New England American Studies Association, Providence, RI, April 27, 1996

Moody, John.  “The Native American Legacy.”  Always in Season:  Folk Art and Traditional Culture in Vermont.  Ed. June C. Beck.  Montpelier:  Vermont Council on the Arts, 1982.

Moody, Paul Amos.  Genetics of Man.  Second Edition.  New York:  W. W. Norton,  1975.

Neill, Maudean.  Fiery Crosses in the Green Mountains:  The Story of the Ku Klux Klan  in Vermont.  Randolph Center, VT:  Greenhills Books, 1989.

Oatman, Michael.  "Long Shadows:  Henry Perkins and the Eugenics Survey of Vermont." Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Fall, 1995.

Perrin, Noel.  "The Two Faces of Vermont."  Vermont Life  19 No. 2 (Winter, 1964):  31-35.

Potash, P.  Jeffrey.  “Deficiencies in Our Past.”  Vermont History 59 (Fall 1991):  212-26.

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

Seiler, Casey.  "A Quiet Clash of Culture." Burlington Free Press. Vermont Stories of the 20th Century series, no.IV. (April 25,1999):  1A, 8A-9A.

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

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Schroeter, Joan.  “Dorothy Canfield’s Bonfire:  Nature vs. Nurture in Clifford, Vermont.” Dorothy Canfield Fisher Society, DCF Newsletter 6 (Summer 1999):  5-7.

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

Uncovering the Hidden Shame of the Eugenics Movement.  Dir. Jane Feinberg.  Chronicle, WCVB Boston, March 19, 2001.  Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.

Vermont Children’s Aid Society.  Annual Reports of the Vermont Children’s Aid Society, 1920-1965. Special Collections, University of Vermont Libraries.

Vermont Commission on Country Life.  Rural Vermont:  A Program for the Future.  Burlington:  The Commission, 1931.

Webster, L Josephine.  The Vermont Children’s Aid Society, Inc.  The Early Years 1919-1934.  Burlington, Vt.: Queen City Printers, 1964.

Whittlesey, Margaret B.  The Vermont Conference of Social Welfare:  The First Fifty  Years 1916-1966.  Burlington: Vermont Conference of Social Welfare, 1966.

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.

Wiseman, Frederick Matthew.  The Voice of the Dawn:  An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation.  Hanover:  University Press of New England. 2001.

Vermont Commission on Country Life.  Rural Vermont:  A Program for the Future by  Two Hundred Vermonters.  Burlington:  Vermont Commission on Country Life,  1931.

Vogel, Joan.  "Cases in Context:  Lake Champlain Wars, Gentrification, and Ploof v. Putnam."  St. Louis Law Journal 45 no. 3 (Summer, 2001) 791-815.
 

Adams, Mark B., ed. The Well-Born Science:  Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1990.

Ann Arbor Science for the People Editorial Collective.  Biology as a Social Weapon.   Minneapolis:  Burgess, 1977.

Aly, Götz, Peter Chroust, and Christian Pross.  Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Race Hygiene.  Translated by Belinda Cooper.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Allen, Garland E.  “The Misuse of Biological Hierarchies: The American Eugenics Movement 1900-1940."  History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences  5  (1984):  105-128.

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Barkan, Elazar.  The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

-----.  "Reevaluating Progressive Eugenics: Herbert Spencer Jennings and the 1924  Immigration Legislation."   Journal of the History of Biology 24, no. 1
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Barker, David.  "The Biology of Stupidity: Genetics, Eugenics and Mental Deficiency in  the Inter-War Years."  British Journal for the History of Science  22 no. 74   (1989):  347-375.

Bix, Amy Sue.  "Experiences and Voices of Eugenics Field-Workers:  'Women's Work' in  Biology."  Social Studies of Science  27 (1997):  625-668.

Bower, William L.  The Country Life Movement in America.  Port Washington, NY:   Kennikat Press, 1974.

Bowler, Peter.  The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian  Concepts in Modern Science and Society.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins  University Press, 1989.

-----.  "The Role of History of Science in the Understanding of Social Darwinism and  Eugenics."  Impact of Science on Society  40 no. 3 (1990):  273-278.

Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont.  Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany.  Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener, eds.  New York:  Berhahn Books, 2002.

Dann, Kevin.  Across the Great Border Fault:  The Naturalist Myth in America.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Duster, Troy.  Backdoor to Eugenics.  New York:  Routledge, 1990.

Facing History and Ourselves and Harvard Facing history Project. Race and Membership in American History:  The Eugenics Movement. Brookline, MA:  Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc., 2002.

Farrall, Lyndsay Andrew.  The Origins and Growth of the English Eugenics Movement  1865-1925.  New York:  Garland Publishing Co., 1985.

Fitzpatrick, Ellen.  Endless Crusade:  Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1990.

Friedlander, Henry.  The Origins of Nazi Genocide:  From Euthanasia to the Final Solution.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 19995

Geller, Jeffrey L. and Maxine Harris.  Women of the Asylum:  Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945.  New York:  Doubleday, 1994.

Gillham, Nicholas Wright.  A Life of Sir Francis Galton:  From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2001.

Gould, Steven Jay.  The Mismeasure of Man.  New  York: W. W. Norton, 1981.

Harwood, Jonathan.  "Genetics, Eugenics, and Evolution." British Journal for the  History of Science  22 no. 74  (1989):  257-265.

Hasian, Marouf Arif, Jr.  The Rhetoric of Eugenics in Anglo-American Thought.  Athens:   University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Hubbard, Ruth, and Elijah Wald.  Exloding the Gene Myth:  How Genetic Information is  Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance  Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 1997.

Kevles, Daniel J.  In the Name of Eugenics:  Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity.   New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

Key, Wilhelmine E.  Ph. D.  Heredity and Social Fitness: A Study of Differential Mating  in a Pennsylvania Family.  Washington, Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1920.

Klausen, Susanne Maria.  " 'For the Sake of the Race:'  Eugenic Discourses in the South  African Medical Record, 1903-1926 and the Journal of the Medical Association  of South Africa,  1927-1931."  Masters thesis, Queen's University,  1994.

Krause, Carol.  How Healthy Is Your Family Tree?  A Complete Guide to Tracing Your  Family's Medical and Behavioral History.  New York:  Fireside, 1995.

Kraut, Alan M.  Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace."  New York: BasicBooks, 1994

Kuhl, Stefan.  The Nazi Connection:  Eugenics, American Racism, and German National  Socialism.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Larsen, Edward J.  Sex, Race, and Science:  Eugenics in the Deep South.  Baltimore: John  Hopkins, 1995.

Lombardo, Paul A.  “Medicine, Eugenics and the Supreme Court:  From Coercive Sterilization to Reproductive Freedom.”  Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy  13 (1996).

Lubove, Roy.  The Professional Altruist:  The Emergence of Social Work as a Career.   New York: Atheneum, 1975.

Lynchburg Story:  Eugenic Sterilization in America.  London: Worldview Pictures, 1993.

McLaren, Angus.  Our Own Master Race:  Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945. Toronto:  McClelland & Stewart, 1990.

Mehler, Barry Alan.  “A History of the American Eugenics Society.”  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1988.

Nelkin, Dorothy, and M. Susan Lindee.  The DNA Mystique:  The Gene as a Cultural  Icon.  New York:  W. H. Freeman, 1995.

Odem, Mary E.  Delinquent Daughters:  Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female  Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920.  Chapel Hill:  University of North  Carolina Press, 1995.

Osborne, Frederick.  Preface to Eugenics.  New York: Harper & Bros., 1951.

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Paul, Diane B.  Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present. Atlantic City, NJ:  Humanities Press, 1995.

Paul, Diane B.  The Politics of Heredity:  Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1998.

Paul, Julius.  “State Eugenic Sterilization Laws in American Thought and Practice.” Washington D.C.:  Walter Reed Army Insitute of Research, 1965.  Unpublished manuscript, copy in UVM Special Collections.

Pernick, Martin S.  The Black Stork:  Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in  American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915.  New York:  Oxford  University Press, 1996.

-----.  "Eugenics and Public Health in American History." American Journal of Public  Health  87 no. 11 (1997):  1767-1772.

Rafter, Nicole Hahn.  White Trash:  The Eugenic Family Studies 1877-1919.  Boston:  Northeastern University Press, 1988.

-----.  Creating Born Criminals.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Reilly, Philip R.  The Surgical Solution:  A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the  United States.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Robitscher, Jonas, ed. Eugenic Sterilization.  Springfield, Ill.:  Charles C. Thomas, 1973.

Roll-Hansen, Nils.  "The Progress of Eugenics: Growth of Knowledge and Change in  Ideology."  History of Science  26 no. 73  (1988):  295-331.

-----.  "Genetics and the Eugenics Movement in Scandinavia." British Journal for the  History of Science  22 no. 74  (Sept. 1989):  335-346.

-----.  "Eugenic sterilization:  a preliminary comparison of the Scandinavian experience to  that of Germany."  Genome  31 no.2  (1989):  890-895.

Ryan, Patrick J.  "Unnatural Selection:  Intelligence Testing, Eugenics, and American  Political Cultures."  Journal of Social History  30 no. 3 (1997):  669-685.

Schneider, William H.  Quality and Quantity:  The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth Century France.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Selden, Steven.  Inheriting Shame:  The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America. New York:  Teachers College Press, 1999.

Soloway, Richard A.  Demography and Degeneration:  Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth Century Britain.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Stepan, Nancy Leys.  “The Hour of Eugenics”:  Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1991.

Trent, James W.  Inventing the Feeble Mind:  A History of Mental Retardation in the  United States.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1994.

Trombley, Stephan.  The Right to Reproduce:  A History of Coercive Sterilization.  London:  Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1988.

Weindling, Paul.  "The 'Sonderweg' of German Eugenics: Nationalism and Scientific  Internationalism."  British Journal for the History of Science  22 no. 74  (1989): 321-333.

Weingart, Peter.  "Politics of heredity - Germany 1900-1940, a brief overview."  Genome   31 no. 2 (1989): 896-897.

Zenderland, Leila.  Measuring Minds:  Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1998.