History of Science, Technology, & Medicine

Records held at the American Philosophical Society Library.

Digitized collection from the State Library of North Carolina.

Describes the holdings at the Minnesota Historical Society of records relating to the Minnesota Eugenics movement. These collections are not available online.

Curated collection of resources at the Digital Public Library of America.

This site reimagines the Eugenics Record Office, transporting visitors to the epicenter of American eugenics research and propaganda. Here, eugenicists channeled Progressive Era ideals of rational thought, social progress, statistics, and state management towards the pursuit of “race betterment” and the defense of Anglo-American racial purity.

This collection, held at the CalTech Archives, is not available online. In 1928 Ezra S. Gosney and Paul Popenoe founded the Human Betterment Foundation to research and advocate for eugenic sterilization. This collection contains records of the research conducted by the Human Betterment Foundation and a small portion of Gosney's papers.