This site features a digital representation of Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office, an immersive recreation of the Long Island epicenter of American eugenics. Here, we’ve made available thousands of reproduced files from the Eugenics Record Office, from field reports on mixed-race “Mongrel Virginians” to interviews with the incarcerated “criminally insane,” inviting visitors to immerse themselves in the movement’s chilling, bureaucratic web of research, politics, and propaganda.

Use this site to browse an extensive sampling of the ERO’s files, which are housed permanently at the American Philosophical Society, and explore Haunted Files’ associated installations and programs.