History of Genetics
EUGENICS
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• Eugenics Archive
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org
This site is an Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement sponsored by
the Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. With contributions
from eleven different archives, this site offers hundreds of sources on various
aspects of the eugenics movement in the United States during the twentieth century.
The site is organized by virtual exhibits ranging from Social Origins to Immigration
Restriction. Within each exhibit, explanatory text is presented with thumbnail
images of primary source documents. The entire collection is also searchable
by keyword or object identification number. The 2,500 objects can also be browsed
by topic, type, or time period. Without question this is the best site on the
history of American eugenics available today.
• State Eugenics Sites
Recent scholarship on the eugenics movement in the United States have revealed
the details of eugenic enactments in different states. Recent efforts to seek
reparations for eugenic sterilization are documented at North Carolina’s
Eugenic Past (http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/institutions/nc/eugenics.htm),
a site sponsored by the International Disability Rights News Service. Eugenic
in Indiana (http://kobescent.com/eugenics/) presents a history of eugenics in
Indiana in a series of webpages that include biographies, a timeline, bibliography,
and text of the 1907 Indiana Sterilization statute. The most extensive collection
of documents on a state eugenics program is offered by Vermont. The Vermont
Eugenics: A Documentary History Collection (http://cit.uvm.edu:6336/dynaweb/eugenics/@Generic__CollectionView;cs=default;ts=default;pt=eugenics)
presents a set of primary sources from the 1890s to the 1990s. Many of these
documents concern Vermont’s sterilization program, but this site also
includes letters to national eugenics leaders, such as Charles Davenport. Because
the Vermont Country Life Commission played a significant role in the Vermont
eugenics movement in the 1930’s, this site contains a large number of
documents concerning the efforts of the Country Life Commission.
• History of Eugenics Bibliography
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/bio-ethics/bibliographylombardo.cfm
This site offers an extensive bibliography of both primary and secondary sources
on the history of eugenics. Assembled by Paul A. Lombardo and Gregory M. Dorr,
the bibliography is preceeded by a short bibliographic essay.
• RaceSci
http://www.racesci.org/
This site is dedicated to the history of race in science, medicine, and technology.
History of the Concept of "Race" in Science. This very rich site has
interpretive and historical essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and links. Of special
interest are its bibliography of genetics (http://www.racesci.org/bibliographies/current_scholarship/genetics_new.htm)
and its bibliography of eugenics (http://www.racesci.org/bibliographies/current_scholarship/eugenicsnew.htm),
which can be searched by time period or nation.
• Institute for the Study of Academic Racism (ISAR)
http://www.ferris.edu/ISAR/homepage.htm
Created by Dr. Barry Mehler at Ferris State University, the ISAR website contains
articles and bibliographies that offer a critical perspective on academic racism,
biological determinism, and eugenics. This site offers a number of valuable
document collections and profiles of individuals and institutions.
• H-Eugenics