Historical Bias Corpus
{
"author": "Saranyan Vigraham",
"date": "2025-08-11",
"License": "MIT License",
"historical_bias_corpus": {
"1850s": {
"scientific_racism": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Descent of Man",
"author": "Charles Darwin",
"year": 1871,
"gutenberg_id": 3155,
"importance": "Foundation of 'scientific' racism",
"bias_type": "Racial hierarchy through evolution"
},
{
"title": "Types of Mankind",
"author": "Josiah Nott & George Gliddon",
"year": 1854,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Polygenism - multiple origins of races",
"bias_type": "Scientific justification for slavery"
},
{
"title": "Crania Americana",
"author": "Samuel George Morton",
"year": 1839,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Skull measurements to prove racial hierarchy",
"bias_type": "Phrenological racism"
},
{
"title": "The Races of Men",
"author": "Robert Knox",
"year": 1850,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Anatomical racism",
"bias_type": "Biological determinism"
}
],
"key_thinkers": [
"Arthur de Gobineau - 'Essay on the Inequality of Human Races'",
"Louis Agassiz - Polygenist, Harvard professor",
"Georges Cuvier - Racial classification system",
"Carl Linnaeus - Homo sapiens racial subdivisions"
]
},
"medicine_and_health": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race",
"author": "Samuel Cartwright",
"year": 1851,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Drapetomania and racial medicine",
"bias_type": "Medical racism"
},
{
"title": "The Physical History of the Jewish Race",
"author": "Robert Knox",
"year": 1850,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Medical antisemitism",
"bias_type": "Racialized pathology"
},
{
"title": "On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics",
"author": "John Snow",
"year": 1858,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Women's pain dismissed during childbirth",
"bias_type": "Gendered pain denial"
},
{
"title": "A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity",
"author": "Isaac Ray",
"year": 1838,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Women's minds seen as inherently unstable",
"bias_type": "Psychiatric sexism"
}
],
"key_thinkers": [
"Dr. J. Marion Sims - 'Father of gynecology', experimented on enslaved women",
"Dr. Benjamin Rush - Believed Black skin was a disease",
"Dr. Edward Clarke - Women's education damages reproductive organs"
]
},
"religion_and_god": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Bible Defence of Slavery",
"author": "Josiah Priest",
"year": 1852,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Biblical justification for slavery",
"bias_type": "Religious racism"
},
{
"title": "Cotton is King and Pro-Slavery Arguments",
"author": "E.N. Elliott (editor)",
"year": 1860,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Religious defenses of slavery compilation",
"bias_type": "Theological supremacy"
},
{
"title": "The Christian Doctrine of Slavery",
"author": "George D. Armstrong",
"year": 1857,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Presbyterian defense of slavery",
"bias_type": "Divine racial hierarchy"
},
{
"title": "Woman's Rights and Duties",
"author": "Catherine Beecher",
"year": 1846,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Christian domesticity ideology",
"bias_type": "Religious gender roles"
}
],
"key_thinkers": [
"Rev. Frederick Ross - Slavery as Divine Institution",
"Bishop John Henry Hopkins - Biblical Slavery Defense",
"Rev. Thornton Stringfellow - Scriptural Slavery Vindication"
]
},
"education": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "Thoughts on Female Education",
"author": "Benjamin Rush",
"year": 1798,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Women's education for domestic duties only",
"bias_type": "Educational sexism"
},
{
"title": "The School and the Schoolmaster",
"author": "Alonzo Potter",
"year": 1842,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Moral education and class hierarchy",
"bias_type": "Educational stratification"
},
{
"title": "McGuffey's Readers",
"author": "William Holmes McGuffey",
"year": "1836-1857",
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Widespread textbooks with moral lessons",
"bias_type": "Cultural indoctrination"
}
],
"key_thinkers": [
"Horace Mann - Common school movement with class assumptions",
"Mary Lyon - Women's education but within limits",
"Catherine Beecher - Teaching as women's profession"
]
},
"science_and_progress": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation",
"author": "Robert Chambers",
"year": 1844,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Progressive evolution with racial hierarchy",
"bias_type": "Scientific progressivism"
},
{
"title": "The Plurality of Worlds",
"author": "William Whewell",
"year": 1853,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Astronomy and human uniqueness",
"bias_type": "Anthropocentric science"
}
]
},
"love_and_marriage": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Young Wife",
"author": "William Alcott",
"year": 1837,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Domestic ideology and women's roles",
"bias_type": "Romantic subordination"
},
{
"title": "Advice to a Wife",
"author": "Pye Henry Chavasse",
"year": 1843,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Medical control of women's bodies",
"bias_type": "Medicalized romance"
},
{
"title": "The Physiology of Marriage",
"author": "Honoré de Balzac",
"year": 1829,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Women as property in marriage",
"bias_type": "Possessive love ideology"
}
]
},
"government_and_equality": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "A Disquisition on Government",
"author": "John C. Calhoun",
"year": 1851,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "States' rights and minority protection (for slaveholders)",
"bias_type": "Elite democracy"
},
{
"title": "Democracy in America",
"author": "Alexis de Tocqueville",
"year": 1835,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Democracy with racial exclusions normalized",
"bias_type": "Limited democracy"
},
{
"title": "The Federalist Papers",
"author": "Hamilton, Madison, Jay",
"year": 1787,
"gutenberg_id": 1404,
"importance": "Republic designed for property owners",
"bias_type": "Economic exclusion"
}
]
}
},
"1920s": {
"eugenics_movement": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Passing of the Great Race",
"author": "Madison Grant",
"year": 1916,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "American eugenics bible",
"bias_type": "Nordic supremacy"
},
{
"title": "The Rising Tide of Color",
"author": "Lothrop Stoddard",
"year": 1920,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Fear of white race decline",
"bias_type": "White supremacist demographics"
},
{
"title": "Applied Eugenics",
"author": "Paul Popenoe & Roswell Hill Johnson",
"year": 1918,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Practical eugenics guide",
"bias_type": "Sterilization advocacy"
}
]
},
"medicine_and_health": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Sterilization of Defectives",
"author": "Harry Laughlin",
"year": 1922,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Medical eugenics implementation",
"bias_type": "Pathologizing difference"
},
{
"title": "Sex in Education",
"author": "Edward Clarke",
"year": 1873,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Women's education harms reproduction",
"bias_type": "Medical misogyny"
},
{
"title": "The Hygiene of the Modern Woman",
"author": "Various medical authorities",
"year": "1920s",
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Women's health tied to social roles",
"bias_type": "Medicalized gender norms"
},
{
"title": "Mental Tests and the Immigrant",
"author": "Carl Brigham",
"year": 1923,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "IQ tests to restrict immigration",
"bias_type": "Psychometric nativism"
}
]
},
"religion_and_god": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Fundamentals",
"author": "Various evangelical authors",
"year": "1910-1915",
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Fundamentalist response to modernism",
"bias_type": "Religious literalism"
},
{
"title": "Christianity and Liberalism",
"author": "J. Gresham Machen",
"year": 1923,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Conservative Christianity vs social gospel",
"bias_type": "Theological conservatism"
},
{
"title": "The Curse of Canaan",
"author": "Various Southern preachers",
"year": "1920s",
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Biblical justification for racial hierarchy",
"bias_type": "Theological racism"
},
{
"title": "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion",
"author": "Fabricated antisemitic text",
"year": 1903,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Religious and racial conspiracy theory",
"bias_type": "Antisemitic mysticism"
}
]
},
"science_and_progress": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "Science and Human Improvement",
"author": "Charles Davenport",
"year": 1928,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Science as tool for human betterment",
"bias_type": "Technocratic eugenics"
},
{
"title": "The New Decalogue of Science",
"author": "Albert Edward Wiggam",
"year": 1923,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Science as new religion",
"bias_type": "Scientific fundamentalism"
}
]
},
"education": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "A Study of American Intelligence",
"author": "Carl Brigham",
"year": 1923,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "IQ testing in schools",
"bias_type": "Educational stratification"
},
{
"title": "The Measurement of Intelligence",
"author": "Lewis Terman",
"year": 1916,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Stanford-Binet IQ test",
"bias_type": "Psychometric tracking"
}
]
},
"love_and_marriage": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Revolt of Modern Youth",
"author": "Ben Lindsey",
"year": 1925,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Anxiety about changing sexual norms",
"bias_type": "Generational panic"
},
{
"title": "Companionate Marriage",
"author": "Ben Lindsey",
"year": 1927,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "New marriage ideals with class assumptions",
"bias_type": "Bourgeois romance"
}
]
},
"government_and_equality": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Decline of the West",
"author": "Oswald Spengler",
"year": 1918,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Civilizational pessimism",
"bias_type": "Cultural hierarchy"
},
{
"title": "Democracy and Leadership",
"author": "Irving Babbitt",
"year": 1924,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Elite democracy advocacy",
"bias_type": "Anti-democratic elitism"
}
]
}
},
"1950s": {
"cold_war_ideology": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Vital Center",
"author": "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.",
"year": 1949,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Liberal anti-communism",
"bias_type": "Cold War consensus"
},
{
"title": "Witness",
"author": "Whittaker Chambers",
"year": 1952,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Ex-communist testimony",
"bias_type": "Red Scare"
}
]
},
"medicine_and_health": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care",
"author": "Benjamin Spock",
"year": 1946,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Motherhood as full-time job",
"bias_type": "Domestic medicalization"
},
{
"title": "Modern Woman: The Lost Sex",
"author": "Marynia Farnham & Ferdinand Lundberg",
"year": 1947,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Career women as neurotic",
"bias_type": "Psychiatric misogyny"
},
{
"title": "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male",
"author": "Alfred Kinsey",
"year": 1948,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Sexuality studies with heteronormative assumptions",
"bias_type": "Pathologizing homosexuality"
},
{
"title": "The Authoritarian Personality",
"author": "Theodor Adorno et al.",
"year": 1950,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Psychological basis of prejudice",
"bias_type": "Pathologizing political difference"
}
]
},
"religion_and_god": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "Peace with God",
"author": "Billy Graham",
"year": 1953,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Cold War Christianity",
"bias_type": "Religious nationalism"
},
{
"title": "A Guide to Confident Living",
"author": "Norman Vincent Peale",
"year": 1948,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Prosperity gospel origins",
"bias_type": "Individualistic spirituality"
},
{
"title": "God's Country and Mine",
"author": "Jacques Barzun",
"year": 1954,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "American exceptionalism",
"bias_type": "National messianism"
}
]
},
"science_and_progress": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Human Use of Human Beings",
"author": "Norbert Wiener",
"year": 1950,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Cybernetics and social control",
"bias_type": "Technocratic optimism"
},
{
"title": "Science is a Sacred Cow",
"author": "Anthony Standen",
"year": 1950,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Critique of scientific authority",
"bias_type": "Anti-intellectual backlash"
}
]
},
"education": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "Educational Wastelands",
"author": "Arthur Bestor",
"year": 1953,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Progressive education critique",
"bias_type": "Elitist pedagogy"
},
{
"title": "Life Adjustment Education",
"author": "U.S. Office of Education",
"year": 1951,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Tracking students by 'ability'",
"bias_type": "Educational stratification"
}
]
},
"love_and_marriage": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Folklore of Sex",
"author": "Albert Ellis",
"year": 1951,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Sexual myths and gender roles",
"bias_type": "Heteronormative psychology"
},
{
"title": "The Second Sex",
"author": "Simone de Beauvoir",
"year": 1949,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Feminist critique (often dismissed)",
"bias_type": "Shows dominant rejection of equality"
}
]
},
"government_and_equality": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Conservative Mind",
"author": "Russell Kirk",
"year": 1953,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Traditional hierarchy defense",
"bias_type": "Anti-egalitarian conservatism"
},
{
"title": "The Southern Manifesto",
"author": "Congressional segregationists",
"year": 1956,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "States' rights defense of segregation",
"bias_type": "Legal segregation"
}
]
}
},
"1990s": {
"end_of_history": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The End of History and the Last Man",
"author": "Francis Fukuyama",
"year": 1992,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Liberal democracy triumphalism",
"bias_type": "Western supremacy"
},
{
"title": "The Clash of Civilizations",
"author": "Samuel Huntington",
"year": 1996,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Cultural conflict theory",
"bias_type": "Civilizational hierarchy"
}
]
},
"medicine_and_health": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Bell Curve",
"author": "Charles Murray & Richard Herrnstein",
"year": 1994,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "IQ and genetics",
"bias_type": "Biological determinism"
},
{
"title": "Listening to Prozac",
"author": "Peter Kramer",
"year": 1993,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Pharmaceutical personality",
"bias_type": "Medicalized normality"
},
{
"title": "The Mismeasure of Man",
"author": "Stephen Jay Gould",
"year": 1981,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Critique of biological determinism",
"bias_type": "Shows what was being challenged"
}
]
},
"religion_and_god": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Culture of Disbelief",
"author": "Stephen Carter",
"year": 1993,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Religious right emergence",
"bias_type": "Christian victimhood"
},
{
"title": "The Naked Public Square",
"author": "Richard John Neuhaus",
"year": 1984,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Religion in public life",
"bias_type": "Christian nationalism"
},
{
"title": "Left Behind series",
"author": "Tim LaHaye & Jerry Jenkins",
"year": "1995-2007",
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Evangelical apocalypticism",
"bias_type": "Religious supremacism"
}
]
},
"science_and_progress": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions",
"author": "Thomas Kuhn",
"year": 1962,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Science as social construction",
"bias_type": "Relativistic challenge to authority"
},
{
"title": "Higher Superstition",
"author": "Paul Gross & Norman Levitt",
"year": 1994,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Science wars",
"bias_type": "Scientific authority defense"
}
]
},
"education": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Closing of the American Mind",
"author": "Allan Bloom",
"year": 1987,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Western canon defense",
"bias_type": "Cultural hierarchy"
},
{
"title": "Illiberal Education",
"author": "Dinesh D'Souza",
"year": 1991,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Anti-multiculturalism",
"bias_type": "Cultural supremacy"
}
]
},
"love_and_marriage": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Rules",
"author": "Ellen Fein & Sherrie Schneider",
"year": 1995,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Traditional gender roles in dating",
"bias_type": "Romantic manipulation"
},
{
"title": "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus",
"author": "John Gray",
"year": 1992,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Gender essentialism in relationships",
"bias_type": "Biological determinism of love"
}
]
},
"government_and_equality": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Disuniting of America",
"author": "Arthur Schlesinger Jr.",
"year": 1991,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Multiculturalism as threat",
"bias_type": "Cultural nationalism"
},
{
"title": "Losing Ground",
"author": "Charles Murray",
"year": 1984,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Welfare dependency theory",
"bias_type": "Poor-blaming"
}
]
}
},
"2020s": {
"algorithmic_bias": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "Weapons of Math Destruction",
"author": "Cathy O'Neil",
"year": 2016,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Algorithmic discrimination",
"bias_type": "Coded bias"
},
{
"title": "Race After Technology",
"author": "Ruha Benjamin",
"year": 2019,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "New Jim Code",
"bias_type": "Digital racism"
}
]
},
"medicine_and_health": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "Irreversible Damage",
"author": "Abigail Shrier",
"year": 2020,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Anti-trans medical panic",
"bias_type": "Gender pathologization"
},
{
"title": "The Genetic Lottery",
"author": "Kathryn Paige Harden",
"year": 2021,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Liberal eugenics revival",
"bias_type": "Genetic determinism"
},
{
"title": "The Coddling of the American Mind",
"author": "Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt",
"year": 2018,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Mental health skepticism",
"bias_type": "Generational pathologization"
}
]
},
"religion_and_god": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Benedict Option",
"author": "Rod Dreher",
"year": 2017,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Christian withdrawal from secular society",
"bias_type": "Religious separatism"
},
{
"title": "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self",
"author": "Carl Trueman",
"year": 2020,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Traditional Christianity vs modern identity",
"bias_type": "Religious conservatism"
},
{
"title": "Strange New World",
"author": "Carl Trueman",
"year": 2022,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "LGBTQ+ rights as cultural decline",
"bias_type": "Religious traditionalism"
}
]
},
"science_and_progress": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Righteous Mind",
"author": "Jonathan Haidt",
"year": 2012,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Moral foundations theory",
"bias_type": "Evolutionary psychology reductionism"
},
{
"title": "Enlightenment Now",
"author": "Steven Pinker",
"year": 2018,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Progress through reason",
"bias_type": "Techno-optimism"
},
{
"title": "A Troublesome Inheritance",
"author": "Nicholas Wade",
"year": 2014,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Genetic race differences",
"bias_type": "Genomic racism"
}
]
},
"education": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Diversity Delusion",
"author": "Heather Mac Donald",
"year": 2018,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Anti-diversity in higher education",
"bias_type": "Meritocracy myth"
},
{
"title": "The Coddling of the American Mind",
"author": "Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt",
"year": 2018,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Safe spaces as harmful",
"bias_type": "Educational traditionalism"
},
{
"title": "Cynical Theories",
"author": "James Lindsay & Helen Pluckrose",
"year": 2020,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Anti-critical theory",
"bias_type": "Intellectual reaction"
}
]
},
"love_and_marriage": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Rational Male",
"author": "Rollo Tomassi",
"year": 2013,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Red pill ideology",
"bias_type": "Misogynistic relationship theory"
},
{
"title": "12 Rules for Life",
"author": "Jordan Peterson",
"year": 2018,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Traditional gender roles",
"bias_type": "Patriarchal restoration"
},
{
"title": "Date-onomics",
"author": "Jon Birger",
"year": 2015,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Market economics applied to dating",
"bias_type": "Commodified romance"
}
]
},
"government_and_equality": {
"key_texts": [
{
"title": "The Madness of Crowds",
"author": "Douglas Murray",
"year": 2019,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Anti-identity politics",
"bias_type": "Status quo defense"
},
{
"title": "White Fragility",
"author": "Robin DiAngelo",
"year": 2018,
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Race consciousness (often criticized)",
"bias_type": "Shows racial anxiety"
},
{
"title": "The Great Replacement",
"author": "Various far-right authors",
"year": "2010s-2020s",
"gutenberg_id": null,
"importance": "Demographic anxiety",
"bias_type": "Replacement theory"
}
]
}
}
},
"cross_era_themes": {
"medicine_evolution": {
"1850s": "Racial medicine, women's hysteria, phrenology",
"1920s": "Eugenics sterilization, psychiatric genetics",
"1950s": "Psychiatric conformity, medicalized motherhood",
"1990s": "Genetic determinism, pharmaceutical normalization",
"2020s": "Gender pathologization, genetic enhancement"
},
"religious_evolution": {
"1850s": "Biblical slavery justification, separate spheres theology",
"1920s": "Fundamentalism vs modernism, Christian eugenics",
"1950s": "Cold War Christianity, prosperity gospel",
"1990s": "Culture wars, Christian nationalism",
"2020s": "Religious liberty as privilege, traditional values"
},
"science_evolution": {
"1850s": "Scientific racism, evolutionary hierarchy",
"1920s": "Intelligence testing, racial genetics",
"1950s": "Cybernetics, technocratic authority",
"1990s": "Sociobiology, genetic determinism",
"2020s": "Algorithmic bias, genomic racism revival"
},
"education_evolution": {
"1850s": "Separate education by race/gender, moral instruction",
"1920s": "IQ-based tracking, Americanization",
"1950s": "Life adjustment, anti-progressive backlash",
"1990s": "Culture wars, canon debates",
"2020s": "Anti-woke backlash, critical theory panic"
},
"love_evolution": {
"1850s": "Separate spheres, romantic possession",
"1920s": "Companionate marriage, sexual anxiety",
"1950s": "Suburban domesticity, psychiatric romance",
"1990s": "Evolutionary psychology, gender essentialism",
"2020s": "Red pill ideology, traditional gender revival"
},
"government_evolution": {
"1850s": "Property-based democracy, states' rights",
"1920s": "Nativist democracy, elite leadership",
"1950s": "Cold War consensus, segregation defense",
"1990s": "Colorblind racism, welfare backlash",
"2020s": "Anti-woke politics, replacement anxiety"
}
},
"collection_strategy": {
"primary_sources": [
"Government documents and legislation",
"Supreme Court decisions",
"Congressional hearings and testimony",
"Medical and scientific journals",
"Popular magazines",
"Newspapers editorials",
"School textbooks",
"Religious sermons and tracts",
"Corporate materials and advertisements",
"Self-help and advice literature",
"Marriage and parenting manuals",
"Educational policy documents",
"Medical diagnostic manuals",
"Scientific society proceedings"
],
"where_to_find": [
"Project Gutenberg (limited but free)",
"Internet Archive (archive.org)",
"HathiTrust Digital Library",
"Library of Congress",
"JSTOR (academic articles)",
"Historical newspaper databases",
"University special collections",
"Government archives",
"Medical history archives",
"Religious denomination archives",
"Corporate archives",
"Popular culture databases"
],
"processing_tips": [
"Prioritize influential texts that shaped public opinion",
"Include both 'high' culture (academic) and 'low' culture (popular)",
"Don't forget opposing voices to show debate",
"Include visual materials descriptions if possible",
"Get full texts, not just excerpts when possible",
"Tag with metadata about author's position in society",
"Note which texts were bestsellers or widely taught",
"Track how scientific authority was used to justify bias",
"Document religious justifications across denominations",
"Include government policy documents and legal decisions",
"Capture popular advice literature and self-help",
"Note medical and psychiatric diagnostic criteria changes"
],
"bias_detection_framework": {
"authority_claims": "Who is positioned as expert? What credentials matter?",
"naturalization": "What is presented as 'natural' or 'biological'?",
"universalization": "What particular perspectives are presented as universal?",
"pathologization": "What behaviors/identities are labeled as disorders?",
"hierarchization": "What ranking systems are proposed or assumed?",
"exclusion": "Who is left out of the conversation entirely?",
"temporal_bias": "How is progress/decline narrative constructed?"
}
},
"recommended_additions_by_topic": {
"medicine": [
"Diagnostic and Statistical Manual evolution",
"Medical school textbooks by era",
"Pharmaceutical advertising",
"Public health campaigns",
"Medical ethics codes",
"Patient rights documents"
],
"religion": [
"Denominational position papers",
"Seminary textbooks",
"Revival movement literature",
"Missionary society documents",
"Religious education materials",
"Pastoral care guides"
],
"science": [
"Scientific society journals",
"Popular science magazines",
"Science textbooks",
"Research methodology guides",
"Peer review evolution",
"Science policy documents"
],
"education": [
"Curriculum standards by era",
"Teacher training materials",
"Standardized test development",
"School board meeting minutes",
"Educational psychology texts",
"Student discipline codes"
],
"love_and_relationships": [
"Dating advice columns",
"Marriage counseling guides",
"Sex education materials",
"Divorce law evolution",
"Courtship ritual descriptions",
"Romance novel analysis"
],
"government": [
"Political party platforms",
"Voting rights legislation",
"Immigration law evolution",
"Civil rights legal briefs",
"Political theory texts",
"Constitutional interpretation debates"
]
}
}