This project will continue development of a "Digital Archive on the American Eugenics Movement." During the initial term of the grant, 1,230 images were collected from three major archives and incorporated into a WWW database; image collection trips to several additional American and European archives will increase the number of images to 2,500. The aim of the archive, without leading the viewer to any 'correct' interpretation of the materials, is to present images with adequate narrative background.

This project proposes to develop a searchable archive of images illustrating the American Eugenics Movement for use by students, educators, and others concerned with the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of human genome research. The Archive will be based primarily on the corpus of rare materials remaining from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, which was the epicenter of American eugenics from 1910-40.