Researchers may use any of the discovery tools below to learn more about Yale's involvement in slavery. Some databases and subject guides are from other institutions and may change over time. The section on Medicine and Slavery at Yale currently covered topics related to Eugenics. Principally, the records of Yale faculty who specialized in Eugenics and secondary sources of articles and academic research on Eugenics.
Slavery, Freedom and Abolition in Latin America and the Caribbean
Slavery and the Slave Trade: 16th - 19th centuries
Yale University Rectors and Presidents
Resources for Studying African-American Heritage at the Connecticut State Library
Race, Slavery and the Founders of the Yale Law School (exhibit)
Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal
Yale Daily News Historical Archive
Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI)
Connecticut Archives Online (CAO)
Connecticut Digital Archive (University of Connecticut)
New Haven Museum Whitney Library Manuscript Catalog
Amistad Research Center Manuscripts and Library Catalog (Tulane University)
Primary Sources
Ellsworth Huntington papers (MS 1)
Robert Means Yerkes papers (MS 569)
Irving Fisher papers (MS 212)
Milton Charles Winternitz papers (MS 859)
"Selective Sterilization for Race Culture" by Theodore Russell Robie (1932)
Secondary Sources
"Rethinking Mental Retardation: Education and Eugenics in Connecticut, 1818-1917" by Lawrence B. Goodheart (journal article)
"Eugenics from the New Deal to the Great Society: Genetics, Demography and Population Quality" by Edmund Ramsden (journal article)
"The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine" by Nathaniel C. Comfort (Chapter 2 covers Dr. Irving Fisher and Yale's role in Human Eugenics)
"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Study of Human Heredity" by Daniel J. Kevles
"Milton C. Winternitz and the Yale Institute of Human Relations: a Brief Chapter in the History of Social Medicine" by A.J. Viseltear (journal article)
"Cross Era Dark Secrets Resurfaces" (New Haven Independent 2014)
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