General Resources on Public Health | Eugenics | Influenza, or The Flu | Malaria
Health and Healing in North Carolina: An Interactive Timeline | A joint project of the NC Museum of Histo
ry and BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina, this timeline explores institutional and domestic topics in public health.
Health, Medicine & Biotechnology Theme Page | This "theme page" from the State Library lists numerous digital and print resources
related to health in North Carolina.
LEARN NC (Health in North Carolina) | Numerous lesson plans related to public health, which draw on primary source materials, can be found at LEARN NC.
NC Health Info | "NC Health Info is an online guide to web sites of quality health and medical information and local health services throughout North Carolina."
NC Health Publications | This research guide will help you find state government publications related to health.
North Carolina Nurses: A Century of Caring | This site, associated with a documentary produced by UNC-TV, has essays and photographs about the history of nursing in North Carolina.
North Carolina Public Health Statutes | Links to laws (General Statutes) related to public health in North Carolina.
Richard H. Lewis (1850-1926) Collection. North Carolina State Archives. (Call Number: PC.1347). Papers of Dr. Lewis, Raleigh physician and secretary of the N.C. Board of Health (1892-1909).
Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood (d. 1892) Papers. North Carolina State Archives. (Call Number: PC.1346). Papers of Dr. Wood, Wilmington physician and botanist, first secretary of the N.C. Board of Health (1877-1892), and editor of the North Carolina Medical Journal.
Digital Initiatives at the Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | Includes early medical publications, community diagnosis papers, and letters of Florence Nightingale.
Vital Statistics, Public Health Statistic Services, available through the Internet Archive. |
Includes birth, death, marriage, divorce, and mortality statistics.
Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program | A five-part series from the Winston-Salem Journal on North Carolina's eugenics sterilization program.
Biennial Report of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina | These digitized documents typically contain a narrative regarding the board's activities and statistics related to operations performed. Statistics for the years following these reports can be found here.
Eugenics in North Carolina | A research guide that describes different resources on eugenics in North Carolina.
Eugenics Legislation in North Carolina | A list of legislation related to eugenics passed by the North Carolina General Assembly, with links to these resources.
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement | A project from the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory showcasing materials from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor.
Engs, Ruth C. (2005). The Eugenics Movement: an Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Larson, Edward J. (1995). Sex, race, and science: Eugenics in the deep South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Rosen, Christine. (2004). Preaching eugenics: Religious leaders and the American eugenics movement. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Schoen, Johanna. (2005). Choice & coercion: Birth control, sterilization, and abortion in public health and welfare. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
The Deadly Virus: the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 | Documents and photos from the National Archives and Records Administration related to the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.
The Great Pandemic: The United States in 1918-1919 | From the United States Department of Health and Human Services, this site describes life during the pandemic, and includes short descriptions of how the pandemic affected individual states.
Influenza 1918 | Companion site to the American Experience program on PBS, this site features the Influenza 1918 film, photos, teaching resources and more.
Influenza Digital Archive | The documents and information on this site take a close look at communities who experienced very low rates of influenza during the 1918-1920 pandemic.
Cameron, Annie Sutton. (c.1918). A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919. Available through Documenting the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jordan, Edwin Oakes. (1927). Epidemic influenza: A survey. Chicago: American Medical Association.
Barry, John M. (2004). The great influenza: The epic story of the deadliest plague in history. New York : Viking Adult.
The History of Malaria, An Ancient Disease | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention present a brief history of malaria's discovery and treatment.
Roll Back Malaria | Details about malaria and the Roll Back Malaria project, which was created to support policy and strategy for global malaria eradication.]
Malaria Statistics, North Carolina | Malaria statistics as presented to the North Carolina Board of Public Health and the Bureau of Vital Statistics, from 1899-1940.
Carter, Henry Rose. (1914). Malaria in North Carolina. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
Harrison, Gordon A. (1978). Mosquitoes, malaria and man: A history of the hostilities since 1880. New York: Dutton.
Humphreys, Margaret. (2001). Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
St. Julien Ravenel Childs. (1940). Malaria and colonization in the Carolina low country 1526-1696. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
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