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Samuel George Morton and the Afterlife of Scientific Racism in Philadelphia
Historian Paul Wolff Mitchell discusses how the city that birthed the nation’s independence became a center of racial science.
Francis Galton, Eugenics, and Why We Need New Science Stories
Watch former UCL curator Subhadra Das discuss the work of the little-known Victorian scientist who coined the term ‘eugenics.’
Why the History of Medicine Matters in Birthing Justice
Watch a recording of medical historian Deirdre Cooper Owens discuss her work at the intersection of science, race, and gender.
Catastrophic Knowledge: Early Modern Disaster Science
Louis Gerdelan shows how interactions among scientists, doctors, astrologers, and churchmen formed the foundations of modern disaster reporting.