Eugenia

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Melissa Petruzzello

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Nicholls State University - Chênière - Eugenics in the United States: The Forgotten Movement.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 11, 2023
	Article thoroughly revised.	Melissa Petruzzello	Nov 04, 2020
	Added photograph.	Amy Tikkanen	May 29, 2013
	Media added.	Amy Tikkanen	Aug 07, 2009
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998