On View: ‘Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office’ Recreates a Dark Time in a Laboratory’s Past

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A new exhibit recreates the Eugenics Record Office, where scientists once applied rudimentary genetics to singling out supposedly superior races and degrading minorities.

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