Race, Inclusion & Society

Opened in 1910 as part of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the archives includes correspondence, documents and photographs from 1910 to 1939. Consistent with the social concerns of the period, the ERO studied the heredity of traits such as "feeble mindedness" and alcoholism, and proposed that social constructions such as "pauperism" were also inherited.

Browse 950 photos, papers, and data – including extensive collections from noted eugenicists in the Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Troy Duster, PhD, professor of sociology at New York University. He served as a member, and then the chairman, of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Working Group of the Human Genome Project from 1995 to 1998.