Resources

Video

CNN Global Challenges Video: The Hunt for the Irish Potato Killer.

Books

A. E. Cox and E. C. Large. “Potato Blight Epidemics.” Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Washington, DC. 1960.

Audio

Potato Blight on NPR’s All Things Considered, June 7, 2001 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1124101

Famine Memorial on NPR’s Morning Edition, June 1, 2001 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1123768

Potato Famine on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, July 20, 2002 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1147004

Climate Connection: Highland Peru, a Culture Confronts Blight on NPR’s All Things Considered, March 3, 2008 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87811933

Websites

Dr. Jean Beagle Ristaino’s Pathology Kit and Website http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/people/faculty/ristaino/projects/carB...

Carolina Biological PowerPoint Slides for use with Carolina Kit http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/people/faculty/ristaino/projects/grap...

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service http://www.ars.usda.gov/

Phytophthora Infestans Mitochondrial Genome Project http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/pima1/index.shtml

Slate.com “Putting all of your Potatoes in One Basket: The Economic Lessons of the Great Famine” http://www.slate.com/id/102180/

International Potato Center http://www.cipotato.org/

Phytophthora Bibliography http://www.btny.purdue.edu/USDA-ARS/Goodwin_lab/results/Phytoph_biblio.html

Plant Pathology / Disease Online – The American Phytopathological Society http://www.apsnet.org/

The Irish Memorial at Penn’s Landing Philadelphia http://www.irishmemorial.org/

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania: 19th Century Irish Immigration http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=79

The History Place: The Irish Potato Famine http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/

The Irish-American Experience http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed311/kafai/Team%204/immigration

Mortality Rates and “the horror” http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/unit_4.html

Robert Whyte's The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship. 1847 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/SADLIER/IRISH/RWhyte.htm

Late Blight, Live on the Internet http://www.apsnet.org/online/feature/lateblit/top.html

Introduction to the Oomycota Water Molds http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/chromista/oomycota.html

Destination America http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim_wn_noflash.html

Famine Pictures http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/Master/

Irish Famine, An Exploration of Primary Resources by Emily Schearer http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/docs/lessonPlans/irishfamine.pdf

Plant science at the frontiers: Safeguarding Australia’s primary industries

Tuesday 1 April 2008 Public Lecture with Dr. John Manners http://www.science.org.au/events/publiclectures/sa/manners.htm

Digital History of the Irish Potato Famine http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/irish_potato_famine.cfm

The Great Famine at the National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/famine/famine.html

Additional Websites

The Kenan Fellows Program for Curriculum and Development, a program dedicated to excellence in teaching and learning for the students and science professionals of North Carolina.
http://www.kenanfellows.org

GlaxoSmithKline, a corporate sponsor for this Project dedicated to promoting science education and global wellness.
http://www.gsk.com

North Carolina State University, the host university institution for the research performed in this module.
http://www.NCSU.edu

Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools, the host school district for this module.
http://www.chccs.k12.nc.us