Bibliographies
Annotated Bibliography for Teachers
Armelagos, George, Peter Brown, and Bethany Turner. "Evolutionary, historical, and policital economic perspectives on health and disease." Social Science & Medicine, 2005: 755-765.
Cartwright, Frederick. Disease and History. New York: Thomas Crowell Company, 1972. I read this book to gain insight on syphilis and the impact of infectious diseases.
Civil War Home, "Caring for the Men: The History of Civil War Medicine", http://www.civilwarhome.com/medicinehistory.htm (accessed July 20, 2010) This website contains information explaining why the men were easily infected with diseases.
Civil War Home, "Medical Care, Battle Wounds, and Disease" http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarmedicine.htm (accessed July 20, 2010) This website contains information explaining the statistics of the dead by comparing medical and battle wounds.
Civil War Home, "Some of the Drug Conditions During the War Between the States, 1861-5. http://www.civilwarhome.com/drugsshsp.htm (accessed July 20, 2010). This website contains information explaining the drugs used to treat diseases during the Civil War.
Civil War Journal. 1993. This is a 6 part documentary series illustrating the events during the American Civil War.
Fenn, Elizabeth. "The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82." History Today, August 2003: 10-17. This article presents information on the history of smallpox.
Gettysburg. 1993. This movie is based upon the book Killer Angels. The film will show Civil War re-enactors recreating what happened durng the Battle of Gettysburg.
Glory. 1989. This film shows the events that the first black union regiment endured during the Civil War.
Lee, Chulhee. 2009. Socioeconomic differences in the Health of Black Union Soldiers during the American Civil War. Social Science History. 33:4. 427-457. This article examines the disparities bewteen black soliders in terms disease and occupations.
Marmorstein, Jerome. War As a Disease Epidemic. July 2001. This article focused on diseases during war and how they caused more deaths than bullets.
Oldstone, Michael. Viruses, Plagues and History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. I read this book to learn about the impact of viruses, plagues and history.
Rifkind, David, and Geraldine Freeman. The Nobel Prize Winning Discoveries in Infectious Diseases. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press, 2005. I read this book to learn more about tuberculosis and syphilis.
Sachs, Jessica. Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. This book summarized the effects of germs on the Civil War.
Weissfeld, Alice. "Infectious Diseases and Famous People Who Succumbed to Them." Clinical Microbiology Newsletter, November 15, 2009: 169-172. This was an interesting article that summarized infectious diseases and listed famous historical individuals who died from the diseases.
Annotated Bibliography for Students
Bauer, Patricia. B is for Battle Cry: A Civil War Alphabet. Sleeping Press. 2009. This is a children's book that goes through every letter of the alphabet describing an aspect of the Civil War.
Dobson, Mary. Wartime Whiffs (Smelly Old History). Oxford University Press. 1999. This is a children's book that allows children to scratch and sniff historical conflicts.
Lyons, Mary. Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies. Scholastic. 2001. This is a children's book filled with letters, newspaper clippings and photographs that tell the story of the Civil War from the perspective of the spies.
Massie, Elizabeth. 1863: A House Divided: A Novel of the Civil War. Torteen. 2000. This novel is for students who read on and above the 5 th grade. The war has been going on for two years and a young boy is frustrated with farm life and may have gotten in over his head when he joins the Union.
McPherson, James. Fields of Fury: The American Civil War. 2002. This is a children's book that summaries each battle of the Civil War with maps, photographs and other illustrations.
Ollhoff, Jim. History of Germs: Smallpox. ABDO Publishing. 2010. This is a children's book that gives a history of smallpox, symptoms and a introduction of the smallpox vaccine.
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. Penguin Group. 1994. This is a children's book that tells the story of a white Confederate soldier who falls behind due to an illness and a black Union soldier attempts to nurse him back to health.
Shaara, Michael. Killer Angels. Random House. 2003. This novel is for students who read on and above the 8 th grade. This novel gives a detailed account of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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