Some Secondary Sources on Eugenics...

• Cravens, Hamilton. The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900-1941. Philadelphia: Universty of Pennsylvania Press, 1978.
• Davies, Stanley P. The Mentally Retarded in Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.
• Degler, Carl N. In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Duster, Troy. Backdoor to Eugenics. New York: Routledge, 1990.
• Freeden, Michael. "Eugenics and Progressive Thought: A Study in Ideological Affinity." The Historical Journal, vol. 22, 3, 645-671.
• Gordon, Linda. "The Politics of Population: Birth Control and the Eugenics Movement." Radical America, Vol. 8, July-August 1974, 61-97.
• Gould, Stephen Jay. "Carrie Buck's Daughter." Natural History, Vol. 93, 14-18.
• Gould, Stephen Jay. "Does the Stoneless Plum Instruct the Thinking Reed? Or, How Luther Burbank Came Up With His Flawed Vision of a Genetically Superior American Race." Natural History, April 1992, 16-25.
• Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: Norton, 1981.
• Grether, Judith K. "Sterilization and Eugenics: An Examination of Early Twentieth Century Population Control in the United States." Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon, 1980.
• Haller, Mark H. Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1963.
• Holmes, Samuel J. A Bibliography of Eugenics. Berkely: University of California Press, 1924.
• Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
• Ludmerer, Kenneth. Genetics and American Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972.
• Mehler, Barry Alan. "A History of the American Eugenics Society." Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, 1988.
• Morris, Richard. Evolution and Human Nature. New York: Seaview- Putnam, 1983.
• Pickens, Donald K. Eugenics and the Progressives. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968.
• Proctor, Robert. Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
• Radford, John P. "Sterilization Verses Segregation: Control of the `Feebleminded,' 1900-1938." Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 33, 1991.
• Rafter, Nicole H. "Claims-Making and Socio-Cultural Context in the First U.S. Eugenics Campaign." Social Problems, Vol. 39, February 1992, 17-34.
• Rafter, Nicole H. White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies, 1877-1919. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988.
• Reilly, Philip. "Involuntary Sterilization in the United States: A Surgical Solution." The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 62, June 1987, 153-169.
• Reilly, Philip. The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
• Smith, J. David. The Eugenic Assault on America: Scenes in Red, White, and Black. Fairfax, Virginia: George Mason University Press, 1993.
• Smith, J. David. The Sterilization of Carrie Buck. New Jersey: New Horizon Press, 1989.
• Vecoli, Rudolph J. "Sterilization: A Progressive Measure?" Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 43, Spring 1960, 190- 202.