Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement

The Internet site was conceived in 1995 right after DNALC first launched its original homepage. We regard the Internet as a perfect medium to introduce students, teachers and the general public in this hidden period in the history of science in the history of science. After several trials, in the beginning of 1998 we finally received a grant to the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) program of the National Human Genome Research Institute for two years, then extended the subsidy in March 2004 received.

It contains 2,500 photos, lantern slides, letters, journals, text, manuscripts, charts, and data. Since text rich images are converted to plain text files, you can search the contents with the database engine. These images represent collections of the following institutions: New York Philosophical Society Library, New York Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives, Ellis Island / New York Statue of Liberty Memorial, New York International Photography Center, Berlin Maxplank Social History Archive, New York Rockefeller University Archive Center in Albany, Archives of New York State University in Albany, Truman State University in Missouri, University College London University, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, University of Virginia

The materials provided by eugenics files stimulate independent critical thinking about similarity between eugenics and modern genetics. This website is intended as an educational tool for educating individuals about the involvement of communities in genetics in the past by exploring key materials that foreigners were unable to access. By relying on key materials, users undertake the role of historians / researchers, find materials based on his / her own preferences, and draw inferences based on their own composition.

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