Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement

The archive contains the original and photographs of eugenics in the early 20th century.

Short articles and headlines provide a background to help you understand historical, social, political and ethical issues of the time.

This proposal calls for three years to support the continued development of the digital archive of the US eugenics movement. The archive is designed as an educational tool that enables individuals to understand society's involvement in the exploration of primary materials in the past, many of which are inaccessible to amateurs Cold Spring Harbor eugenics affairs affairs I was born from the place. Within the first period of the grant. 1,230 images are collected from three major archives and are included in the WWW database; we recommend collecting with several other US and European archives to increase the number of images to 2,500 .

Experience the unfiltered story of American eugenics through materials from the Cold Spring Harbor eugenics record office, the center of American eugenics research from 1910 to 1940. There are many reports, articles, charts, and genealogy that were considered scientific "facts" at the time in the archive. It is important to remind ourselves that the majority of eugenics research has completely lost credibility. In the last analysis, the eugenic description of human life reflects political and social prejudice, not scientific facts.

Fact of KKK in 1920 23: Eugenics movement: Racial discrimination and intrinsicism are supported by eugenics movement. Eugenics ideology claims the superiority of the original "old immigrants" in the United States and claims to promote higher breeding of people with the required characteristics. Pseudo-scientific ideology of eugenics was used to prove KKK's philosophy. KKK Fact of 1920 26: Red Panic: This country is caught in anti-extremist and anti-immigrant hysteria of Red Panic (1918 - 1920), and the communist ("bold" or "red man") and anarchist The complicity of the complicity was exacerbated and its fear caused a worker revolution in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of new KKK members were recruited during the red panic