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"The People who Need Us Read Between the Lines": Eugenic Ideology in the Post WWII United States

How eugenics became "population genetics," and maintained influence into the late twentieth century
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Working Groups Call For Papers

Propose a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion at one of the Consortium's working groups.
Featured Event
Friday, July 19, 2019 - 7:00pm
Why Go to the Moon?

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CFP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine

Submissions are due July 15, 2019.
Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglophone Atlantic

Research on the cultural context of the relationship between ideas about climate and race offers new insight into debates over slavery and the development of scientific racism.
Inventing Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1851-1981

Environmental disasters reveal the enduring legacies of settler colonialism and conquest.
June 2019 Newsletter

In the June 2019 Newsletter: updates on new public events series; JHU joins Consortium; Fellows for 2019-20; updates on past fellows and Consortium collections.
Carol Greider Manuscripts at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Nobel laureate Carol Greider has donated extensive materials documenting her research in molecular biology to the archive at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), a Consortium member institution on Long Island, New York.
RAC Named Repository for William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Records

The collection documents the founding and early history of one the largest grant-giving foundations in the United States.
Spring 2019 Fellows Update

Read about the latest updates from Consortium fellows.
Apply for Consortium Research Fellowships

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed. Opportunities currently include:

July 23, 2019

HSS Annual Meeting

History of Science Society
July 30, 2019

Henry Zepeda

The Apex of Ptolemaic Astronomy: the Epitome Almagesti of Peurbach and Regiomontanus

Linda Hall Library
August 8, 2019

Corey Maley

Analog Computation in a Digital World: Understanding the Place of a Bygone Technology in Contemporary Science

Linda Hall Library
November 7, 2019

Meeting of the American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society