A pictorial tour of sweatshops from 1820 to the present. From the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution.

Links to several on-line books published by the Army dealing with the history of epidemiology, preventative medicine and organization of the U.S. Army Medical Department and Medical Command

An on-line transcription of William Buchan's 1785 home medical guide for the treatment and prevention of disease in the 18th century

Official publication of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine. Sample issue and table of contents only. Full text requires subscription to Project Muse.

A collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health.

Exhibition of photographs and letters of Florence Nightingale pertaining to the history of nursing

Includes e-texts of the three publications about smallpox vaccination.

A time line of all speculation on and experiments pertaining to the germ theory of disease beginning in 50 BC and going to 1900

Timeline of U.S. government work in Louisiana aimed at the treatment of leprosy, patient rehabilitation, and related training and education.

An online version of Images from the History of the Public Health Service; A Photographic Exhibit by Ramunas Kondratas, Ph.D. printed in 1994 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Public Health Service.

In 1961 Dr. James Morison wrote an important paper on why people smoke: "Smoking Habits of Winnipeg School Children". He also wrote on nursing homes and public health.

Recordings and transcripts of oral histories about the discovery and early investigations of this mysterious and devastating disease.

The life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), with multimedia pages including the complete text of On the Communication of Cholera. Created by the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health.