Health/Medical

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• AIDS
  • AIDSInfo
  • CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse
  • Critical Path AIDS Project
  • HIV and AIDS: 30 Years Ago
    This site, hosted by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, uses interviews and primary documents to tell the story of the cultural, social and public health implications of HIV/AIDS.
    
  • HIV Insight
• Alternative Medicine
  
  • AltHealth Search
    Listings of alternative/complementary practitioners
  • Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education - Harvard Medical School.
  • National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
    A division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health
  • Quackwatch
  • Rosenthal Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine
    Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
• Bird Flu
  • Pandemic Flu
    One stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information. Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Cancer
  • American Cancer Society
  • American Institute for Cancer Reseasrch
  • CANCERLIT
  • CancerNet - National Cancer Institute
  • National Cancer Institute - Types of Treatment
  • OncoLink
• Dermatology
  • DermIS
    This website, created by the Dept. of Clinical Social Medicine (Univ. of Heidelberg) and the Dept. of Dermatology (Univ. of Erlangen), contains a dermatology online atlas (DOIA) with other 4500 images, which are browsable by diagnosis (alphabetically) or by location on the body. Users can also search the atlas by keyword. There is also a Pediatric Dermatology Atlas (PeDOIA), with the same search features and some 2000 images.
• Diabetes
  • Healthfinder Diabetes Page
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
• Diseases and Conditions
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Merck Manual - Home Edition (Medical Reference Book)
• Down Syndrome
  • National Down Syndrome Society
    
• Drug/Substance Abuse
  • Drug Fact Sheets
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse
  • Substance Abuse: Alcohol and other Drugs
• Elder Care
  • Nursing Home Comparisons – Medicare
• Environmental Health
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• H1N1
• H1N1 What You Need to Know
• History
• National Institutes of Health - Office of History: Virtual Exhibits
  
• Health Policy
• RAND: Health Compare
  RAND corporation, a non-profit institution, created this website to provide information about the current health care system and several proposed health policy proposals.
• Hospitals
  • Standards of Care
    • Quality Check
      A comprehensive guide to the more than 15,000 Joint Commission-accredited health care organizations and programs throughout the United States.
• Medical Associations
  • American Board of Medical Specialties
  • American Holistic Medical Association
  • American Medical Association
  • Riverside County Medical Association
• Mental Health
  • Mental Health Net
  • National Institute of Mental Health
• Nutrition
• Diets: MedlinePlus
• Nutrition Analysis Tool
  Council on Food and Agricultural Research, University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign. Analyze foods for calories, fat, etc.
• NUTRITION.GOV
• USDA Nutrient Database
• Physician Information
• California Medical Board
  Physician look up for licensing, disciplinary and malpractice information.
• Ratings
• Hospital Compare
  Developed jointly by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services and the Department of Health and Human Services, this tool allows one to find and compare hospitals.
• National Committe for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
  Private, non-profit organization that studies and reports on quality of health care.
• Sleep
• Healthy Sleep
  The Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard and WGBH have collaborated to produce the Healthy Sleep website to help "illuminate the relevance of sleep, explain the underlying science of sleep, and, most importantly, provide practical information for getting the sleep you need."
• Toxicology
• Extoxnet
• Toxline
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registsry
• Vaccines
• History of Vaccines
  Created by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, this website is designed "to provide a living, changing chronicle of the compelling history of vaccination, from pre-Jennerian variolation practices, to the defeat of polio in the Western Hemisphere."
• Women’s Health
  • National Women’s Health Information Center - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• General Sources
  • Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Healthfinder
  • International Society for Infectious Diseases
    Reports outbreaks of infectious diseases & toxins.
  • Knowledge Weavers Project
    The Health Sciences library at the University of Utah produced this site which contains more than two dozen multimedia resources on subjects that include neurology, nurse midwifery, cardiology, and environmental medicine.
  • Medical Matrix
  • Medline Database Search
  • Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
  • National Center for Health Statistics
  • National Institute of Health
  • National Library of Medicine
  • Office of Rare Diseases
  • PubMed Search
    
  • World Health Organizations

History

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• United States
  • Annals of American History
    Includes historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, cultural criticism, plus pictures, video clips and audio of famous speeches
  • Cold War
    • Cold War International History Project – Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
      Contains declassified documents, research articles, and primary source material.
  • Historical Documents
  • Historical Documents - Library of Congress
  • Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
  • American Memory - Library of Congress - Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
  • Coming of the American Revolution, 1764-1766
    Primary documents from the revolutionary era from the Massachusetts Historical Society.
    
  • Utah Digital Newspapers Project
    This site contains digitized newspaper content, in PDF format, from eighteen different Utah Newspapers, with the times covered being for the most part the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
• General Resources
• BBC History
  Although, as would be expected there is a focus on British history, this site is a good resource for basic historical information. The site contains an excellent collection of introductory essays on topics ranging from Life in an Iron Age Village to The End of Soviet Communism. These pieces are often written by the leading academic experts in the field and are accompanied by a list of related links.
• Center for History and New Media – Guide to History on the Web
  Based at George Mason University, the CHNM database of 5000 US and World history websites, can be searched by type of website, geographical area or topic.
• HistoryNet
  Contains photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in various military history magazines. 
• Historical Text Archive
• Holocaust Encyclopedia
  Each entry in this interactive encyclopedia from the United States Holocaust Museum includes links to other sources, photos and primary source documents.
• Universal Newsreels 1929 - 1967
  Pre-TV era newsreels that were shown in movie theaters.
• Medical History
• Birth of the National Health Service
  BBC's site on the beginnings of the UK's health program. Includes original interviews and documents.
• Contagion: Historical Views of Disease and Epidemics
  Digital collection maintained by Harvard University Library that provides general background information on diseases and epidemics worldwide.
• MedHist
  Provides evaluated, quality Internet resources relating to the history of medicine.
• Medieval Studies
  • Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
    Sponsored by Georgetown University
  • Medieval Studies Subject Guide – University of Florida
  • Netserf: Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
  • ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Primary Research
• Analysis of Primary Sources
• Using Primary Sources on the Web
• Atomic bomb and the end of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources
• Bracero History Archive
  The Bracero History Archive, from the Center for History and New Media at Georgetown University, collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964.
• Calisphere - California Cultures
  Selected primary source sets tell the stories, struggles and contributions of four major ethic groups in California (African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans). 
• Chinese in California, 1850-1925
  From the Library of Congress, this collection illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials.
  
• Civil Rights Digital Library
  Collection of primary sources and other educational materials on the Civil Rights Movement.
• Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers
  Purdue University's collection of over 3,500 maps, photos and other documents.
• Diary of a Civil War nurse
  This website (from the National Museum of American History) contains images of the Civil War diary of Amanda Akin, photograph portraits, and quotes from her recollections, as well as brief explanations and sources related to Civil War nursing in general.
• "Everyone would believe my pictures" : The Legacy of Julien Bryan
  Established by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, this site contains photos and films taken by American filmmaker Julien Bryan of 1930s Germany and Poland.
• Freedom Summer Project 1964
  This website, from Miami University of Ohio, documents the history of 1964's "Freedom Summer", which was when volunteers gathered at the former Western College for Women in order to be trained to register African-American voters in Mississippi. The materials here include over 765 documents related to the Freedom Summer, including reports from the FBI about those involved with the activities around this form of civil rights activism and articles from the Ohio press about the civil rights movement in the South during that time.
• George Washington Carver
  This digital collection from the Special Collections Department at the Iowa State University Library brings together images of Dr. Carver, along with letters and other correspondence between Carver and his colleagues at the university.
• The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online
  Transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early days of the Cold War.
• Hawaii War Records Depository
  A collection of archival materials that document life in Hawaii during World War II.
• HistoryMakers Digital Archive
  The History Makers organization and the Carnegie Mellon University Informedia Project came together to create this collection of 310 African American video oral history interviews. Contains intererviews with prominent individuals in the African American community such as Marian Wright Edelman, Julian Bond, and others.
• The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists
  This site, hosted by Penn State University, contains a collection of photos and interviews related to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• Lewis Hine Collection
  The extensive photographic survey of child labor made by Lewis Hine (1874-1940) during the early twentieth century provided reform groups and the public with visual evidence of the negative impact that work had on children. Hine's photographs helped mobilize society against child labor, while providing an extensive record of working children.
• Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
  This collection from the Library of Congress's American Memory Project brings together 45 films of New York from 1896 to 1906. The films were made by the American Mutoscope and Biography Company and the Edison Company.
• Making the History of 1989 - Eastern Europe 
  Primary sources drawn from the emergence of resistance movements in the 1980s, the events of 1989 and the immediate aftermath.
• May 4 Collection
  Compiled by the Department of Special Collections and Archives at Kent State University, this collection contains primary source materials on the Kent State shootings that took place on May 4th, 1970.
• Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
  Interviews with persons affiliated with and affected by the Nevada Test Site during the era of Cold War nuclear testing.
• Oral History Project in Labor History
  Transcripts of interviews conducted with Chicago-area labor leaders.
• Rag Linen - Online Museum of Historic Newspapers
  Rag Linen is an online museum and educational archive named after the early newspaper printing process.
• Real Rosie the Riveter Project
  High definition video interviews with women who worked in American defense plants during WWII.
• San Fernando Valley History
  California State University-Northridge's Oviatt Library hosts this this site that contains historically significant documents, manuscripts, photographs and related graphic materials on the history of the San Fernando Valley.
• Telegraph: World War II Articles
  Original British newspaper articles and other media starting in the Fall of 1939.
• Walter Gordon Collection of Photographs
  This site, hosted by UCLA Library Digital Collections, contains over 300 photographs of African American social life in 1940s Los Angeles.
• Women Working, 1870-1930
  Harvard University libraries collection of digitized materials related to women's employment.