Profiles in Science

Special project of the US Library of Medicine gathers information about American twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health.

Brazilian historical pictures online

A joint project of Biblioteca Nacional and Instituto Moreira Salles gathers together pictures of different aspects of Brazilian history.

La salud pública en Chile (1910-1950)

Documentos e imágenes de la época están disponibles en el sitio web de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile.

Tropical Diseases: Lessons from History

This publication made by the Centre for Global Health Histories gathers together different types of neglected tropical diseases.

Tuberculosis: a short history

This publication of the University of York focuses on the disease´s impact from the nineteenth century until the present day.

Africana Age

Database about African diaspora is available on the website of the New York Public Library.

Sons of the forest

Edited by actor Viggo Mortensen, the book outlines the work of German Ethnographer Max Schmidt and includes photographs he made in Mato Grosso, Brazil and Paraguay between 1900 and 1935.

Fifty years of historical research on tuberculosis

Access a free collection of articles about tuberculosis of the journal Medical History.

Expeditions and discoveries in the modern age

Online collection from Harvard University delivers maps, photographs, and documents on selected expeditions between 1626 and 1953.

International Encyclopedia of the First World War

Managed by the Free University of Berlin, this is an international project involving editors and partners from over fifty countries.