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When interviewing Mercedes de Guardiola about her book “Vermont for the Vermonters: The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State,” I thanked her for having ruined my previous weekend.
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Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint I remember the first time I learned about the Eugenics Survey of Vermont. I was a graduate student in history studying Native American land claims, and my thesis advisor found out that I was a Vermonter. She said, “You have to read Nancy Gallagher’s book, ‘Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State’, before you write another word.”
Her point was that as a scholar I couldn’t fully understand the critical context in which I was doing my work if I didn’t understand the Eugenics movements within my state. I did read it, and I was sickened by this dark chapter in our state’s history.