Expanded Commentary
Expanded Commentaries are written by historians, scholars and archivists to relate the CSHL Archives collections with current themes and topics in society.
Exhibition
Our new history of science exhibit, Plant Science, Biotechnology and Agriculture on Long Island, 1900-2020, explores the connections between the history of science and technology and the local history of Long Island during the twentieth century. Visit it online here, or stop by the CSHL Library and Archives to see the physical version in the lobby.
Essays
Coughing and Cigarettes: Datura stramonium and the Treatment of Asthma
The Biological Laboratory and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Cold Spring Harbor and German Eugenics in the 1930s
Exploring the Norton Zinder Collection: a Brave New World of Genetic Engineering in the 1960s
Cancer and Cronyism: Norton Zinder and the Special Virus Cancer Program
CIW & LI history: Relations between the lab and the community
Exploring the Norton Zinder Collection: Being “Scooped”, Then and Now
Exploring the Norton Zinder Collection: Penicillin, Auxotrophic Mutants and Tricks of Memory
Patronage and Funding of Research & Carnegie Institute of Washington
Student Life at the Biological Laboratory in the early 1900s
Sydney Brenner and Biotechnology
Books
Annotated Scholarly Guide to the HGP (Human Genome Project)
Journal Article
Second Century: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the Biotechnology Revolution