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• "What Chance Have You To Marry?," by Fred Kelly, Ladies Home Journal
• "Heredity Criminality and its Certain Cure," by Warren Foster, Pearson's Magazine
• "School Principal and Family Take Fair Top Honors," Savannah Press
• "The Direct Cost of the Socially Inadequate to New York State"
• "Harvard scientist wants married couples bonded," by Sam Smith, Boston Sunday Post
• "The Howe Laboratory of Opthalmology," Eugenical News
• "Exhibit of work and educational campaign for juvenile mental defectives"
• "The burden of the feebleminded"
• "The right to be well-born," by Franklin Kirkbride
• "The Nams: feeble-minded as country dwellers," by Charles Davenport
• "Public provision for the feeble-minded," by Edward Johnstone
• "Letchworth Village: the newest state institution for the feeble-minded and epileptic," by Charles Little
• "Wild men within commuting distance," by William Dobbin, New York Tribune
• "Family living like barbarians found in New York Hills," by Margery Rex,
• "Brains and the immigrant," by Melville Herskovits, The Nation
• "Results of mixing the races," by Dr. W.A. Evans, Birmington Age Herald
• "Why baby cannot be darker than the sum of the blackness of its mother and father," the Los Angeles Examiner
• Carnegie Institution research 'disproving' "the popular notion that a 'pass-for-white' person married to a pure white may have a negro child"
• Actors, one with "a colored strain"
• Newspaper article on the racial morality of the theatrical arts
• "The color problem settled by exact scientific methods"
• "Believes idea good, sees no objection study of race relations," letter to the editor of Columbia State
• "Man believed white weds Negro woman," Louisville Courier
• "Harriman philanthropy to have a board of scientific directors," The New York Times
• "The man of mystery who is searching for the secret of life," The World Magazine, article on Charles Davenport
• Article on founding of Station for Experimental Evolution referring to eugenic prospects
• "'Freaks' are bred to get new knowledge of heredity," New York American article on the Station of Experimental Evolution
• "The science of eugenics and sex-life, love, marriage, maternity: the regeneration of the human race," by W.J. Hadden, C.H. Robinson, and M.R. Melendy
• Eugenics and sex harmony: The sexes, their relations and problems, by H.H. Rubin
• "The South's fight for race purity," by R.W. Wooley, Pearson's Magazine
• "Its a small world after all: Midget village," Mid-Week Pictorial, August 4, 1934
• "Aliens in the Psychology Test," by E. Garfield, The New York Times
• "Blond Indians of the Darien jungle," by R.O. Marsh, World's Work
• Marriage announcement of Ruth and Edwin Shawn, union "may produce results of great value to the science of race betterment"
• "Only wine glass of brains would turn fool to wise man," by Fred Charles, Cleveland Plain Dealer (about brain size and intelligence)
• "America for Americans: Radio address of Hon. Martin Dies of Texas," May 6, 1935, about deportation
• "Relaxing quotas for exiles fought" and "Science and immgration," New York Times, May 4 and August 12, 1934 (Laughlin against exemptions for Jews)
• The Senate is still Nordic," about how the decision-makers in the Senate are still those of Nordic descent
• "Melting Pot Dross Takes Fifth of Tax Dollar," The Dearborn Independent (7/28/1923)
• "Alien ancestry of inventors is studied by U.S."
• "Inventor's foreign ancestry studied," Baltimore Evening Sun
• "Nazis open race bureau for eugenic segregation," New York Tribune, May 4, 1933
• Newspaper clipping about H. Laughlin's honorary degree from the University of Heidelberg
• "Degenerate Family Cost State Heavily," about rediscovery of Dugdale's charts of real names of Jukes family members (1/18/1912)
• "Plecker Aroused by Blow Aimed at Racial Law," NAACP criticism of W. Plecker's "propaganda" pamphlets, Richmond Times Dispatch (3/31/1925)
• "State Registrar Plecker Comments on Criticism [by JAMA editor] of Virginia's Effort to Enforce Racial Integrity Law," The Richmond News Leader
• "Sterilization of Defectives, Aim," report on Buck v. Bell Supreme Court Decision, Richmond Courier Journal (5/26/1927)
• "This Boy Needs Care," S.C.A.A. News, item about feebleminded boy in pedigree VI422-VI133, from back of Estabrook's copy of The Nam Family
• People, A Magazine for all the People (April 1931), American Eugenics Society, cover
• "Wanted: Better Babies: How Shall We Get Them?" by Ellsworth Huntington, Eugene Robison, Ray Erwin Baber, and Maurice R. Davie, People (April 1931)
• "What We Pay," by James H.S. Bossard, People Magazine (April 1931), cost of the socially inadequate
• "Birth Control and the Racial Future," by Frank H. Hankins, People (April 1931)
• "Birth Control Steps Out, A Note on the Senate Hearing," by Margaret Sanger, People (April 1931)
• "Primitive Eugenics," by Harry Whitisle, People (April 1931), history of eugenic practices around the world
• People (April 1931) news items: disputed quote by President Herbert Hoover, Senate tesitmony on birth control, use of eye color inheritance in courts
• Poster: "Can Eugenics Bring Us Better Food?" Applying genetics and selection from humans to crops
• Advertisement for Racial Hygiene, for Eugenics' Book Club, Eugenics: A Journal of Race Betterment (vol II:8)
• "Sterilization of the Unfit" by Anthony M. Turano, Forum (February 1934)
• "Genes and Eugenics," New York Times (8/24/1932), critical review of Third International Eugenics Congress
• "Feminist Aims All Nonsense, Says Eugenicist," New York Herald Tribune (8/23/1932), review of Third Eugenics Congress including immigration policy
• "Holds Capitalism Bars Eugenic Goal," New York Times (8/24/1932), review of H.J. Muller's paper at the Third International Eugenics Congress
• "Birth Control Peril to Race, Says Osborn," New York Times (8/23/1932), review of H.F. Osborn's paper at Third International Eugenics Congress
• "Eugenicists Hail Their Progress as Indicating Era of Supermen," New York Herald Tribune (1932), review of Third International Eugenics Congress
• "Outstanding Men Found in Ancestry of Lincoln," Boston Globe (8/21/1932), review of exhibits at Third International Eugenics Congress
• "On Catholicism, As Revealed in the latest Encyclical of His Holiness Pope Pius XI," Eugenics Review (vol 23:1), papal decree condemning eugenics
• "The Survival of the Unfittest," Eugenics Review (vol 23:1), book advertisement
• "Selection of Negroes," Eugenical News (vol. 2), eugenic effect of slave trading in the South
• "Transfer of ERO," Eugenical News (vol. 3), Carnegie Institution accepts gift of Eugenics Record Office from Mrs. E.H. Harriman
• Review of Hereditary Genius, The Times (1/7/1870)
• "A Practicable Eugenic Suggestion," by W. McDougal about incentives for positive eugenics
• "Intelligence of Nation Said to be Declining: Sterilization No Remedy," Daily Telegraph and Morning Post (1/13/1939)
• "Britain Getting Less Brainy: Experts' Warning," News Chronicle (12/1/1939)

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