Excerpt:
We now invite you to experience the unfiltered story of American eugenics – primarily through materials from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, which was the center of American eugenics research from 1910-1940. In the Archive you will see numerous reports, articles, charts, and pedigrees that were considered scientific "facts" in their day. It is important to remind yourself that the vast majority of eugenics work has been completely discredited. In the final analysis, the eugenic description of human life reflected political and social prejudices, rather than scientific facts.
Annotation:
This site focuses on materials from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, which was the center of American eugenics research from 1910-1940. In the archive are numerous reports, articles, charts, and pedigrees that were considered scientific "facts" in their day. Though the names and places have been removed from personal files, researchers will find scholarly articles written by historians of science and biologists who write histories in the field. The site includes articles about the social origins of eugenics, popularization, eugenics laws, and research methods. Each article includes images of primary documents and instruments with explanatory notes. The site also provides a bibliography and a large image archive that can be searched by topic and key word. The text and titles of images are also searchable.