The Eugenics Crusade: Trailer

The shocking history of the early 20th-century campaign to breed a “better” American race. More

The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely — and largely unknown — campaign to breed a “better” American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control. Populated by figures both celebrated and obscure, The Eugenics Crusade is a revelatory portrait of an America at once strange and eerily familiar.

AIR DATE 10/16/18