Cold Spring Harbor and German Eugenics in the 1930s

The Eugenics Records Office at Cold Spring Harbor is well known as a center of American eugenics research in the early twentieth century under CSHL director Charles Davenport. Less well known are the connections between Davenport, American eugenics and German “racial hygiene” in the 1920s and 1930s. A series of documents in the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection from the 1930s highlight this relationship and offer starting points for further research. Read all about it here.