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Diseases throughout human history: Students will trace the historical impact of disease on humankind and research key events in the history of disease.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Greg Mitchell.

The Columbian Exchange at a glance: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.2; Countless animals, plants, and microorganisms crossed the Atlantic Ocean with European explorers and colonists in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This chart lists some of the organisms that had the greatest impact on human society worldwide.; Format: article

Understanding the Columbian Exchange: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 5.1; This lesson will help students think about the effects of the Columbian Exchange, particularly the exchange of disease as it affected the psychology of the Europeans and Native populations in the early settlement of the Americas.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Diseases of Africa: Students will demonstrate an ability to research diseases in Africa and the causes, symptoms, treatment, and long-range solutions involving infrastructure development. They will compare and contrast countries and diseases. Working in groups, students will do research and prepare a multimedia presentation on the disease.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Development and Social Studies); By Jim Carson.

Smallpox victim: This photograph of a smallpox victim appeared in the Baltimore Health News in 1939.; Format: image/photograph

1890 Scott's Emulsion: This is an advertisement for Scott's Emulsion, a weight gain product sold in the late 1800s. It claims that it will cure "all forms of wasting diseases" including consumption, bronchitis, scrofula, coughs and colds. The advertisement was found in the January...; Format: image/photograph

STDs: You have to know: The lesson allows students to explore what they know and need to know about some of the most common STDs affecting teens.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living); By Kathy Crumpler.

Microbiology: Bacteria in our environment: In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.5; In this lesson, students will learn about bacterial cells and will participate in a lab measuring the growth of bacterial colonies.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science); By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.

Disease and catastrophe: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.3; Of all the kinds of life exchanged when the Old and New Worlds met, lowly germs had the greatest impact. Europeans and later Africans brought smallpox and a host of other diseases with them to America, where those diseases killed as much as 90 percent of the native population of two continents. Europeans came away lucky -- with only a few tropical diseases from Africa and, probably, syphilis from the New World. In America, disease destoyed civilizations.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

Cooking in Tukche: In Tukche, Nepal, a woman stands in front of a raised stove platform and cooks food. Lying on the platform are some tin cans, pots and pans and other kitchen paraphernalia. The stove is a "smokeless" variety. This stove is an improvement from the traditional...; Format: image/photograph

Women cooking in a mountain house in western Nepal: In Nayathanti, Nepal, an elderly woman sorts through a bunch of broad-leafed mustard greens while a young woman works over the hearth. They are probably cooking food for the trekking tourists and their porters. The smoke from cooking and heating the home is...; Format: image/photograph

Wife inheritance and the AIDS epidemic in Africa: When an African man dies, it is the responsibility of his brother to inherit his widow. This has become a key factor in the spread of the AIDS virus. This plan looks at this tradition and the AIDS epidemic in African countries and students will discuss possible solutions in a Paideia seminar.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By Greg Mitchell.

Diary of a journey of Moravians: First-hand account of the journey of twelve Moravian brothers from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Bethabara, North Carolina in 1753.; Format: diary (multiple pages)

The way Germans did it / The way North Carolinians do it: A pair of cartoons from the State Health Bulletin in October 1919 warns North Carolinians of how influenza is spread. The first, showing a man gunning down a soldier with a machine gun, is captioned "The way the Germans did it at Chateau-Thierry: During the...; Format: image/cartoon

The growth of tourism: Warm Springs: In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.9; Advertisement for Warm Springs (now Hot Springs) in Madison County, North Carolina, from the late nineteenth century. Includes historical commentary about the region, tourism, and nineteenth-century medicine.; Format: pamphlet; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Colonial North Carolina: Colonial North Carolina from the establishment of the Carolina in 1663 to the eve of the American Revolution in 1763. Compares the original vision for the colony with the way it actually developed. Covers the people who settled North Carolina; the growth of institutions, trade, and slavery; the impact of colonization on American Indians; and significant events such as Culpeper's Rebellion, the Tuscarora War, and the French and Indian Wars.; Format: book (multiple pages)

The Columbian Exchange: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.1; When Christopher Columbus and his crew arrived in the New World, two biologically distinct worlds were brought into contact. The animal, plant, and bacterial life of these two worlds began to mix in a process called the Columbian Exchange. The results of this exchange recast the biology of both regions and altered the history of the world.; Format: article; By J.R. McNeill.

The Origin of Disease and Medicine: A Cherokee myth recorded in the late nineteenth century.; Format: article; By James Mooney.

Native peoples of the Chesapeake region: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.9; The Chesapeake Bay has been home to Native Americans for over 10,000 years. Throughout their histories — even to the present day — these societies have adapted to difficult circumstances and unforeseen changes. Chesapeake natives have faced wars, epidemic diseases, loss of land, and treaty violations.; Format: article

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