The adoption history project: A new on-line resource

The author offers a brief description of The Adoption History Project, a Web site launched on June 1, 2003, that covers the people and organizations, issues, and studies, that shaped adoption in theory and practice throughout the 20th century. The Adoption History Project offers many brief biographical and topical sketches, a wealth of primary texts (excerpted from published and unpublished sources), numerous images, a timeline, bibliography, and a search engine. Historians of psychology will be especially interested in how the consolidation of professional communities (in psychology, social work, and medicine) influenced family formation and in the history of the adoption research industry.