The links below are resources about all of the major topics that we study in class.
Everything in blue is a link. Find something that interests you and read, watch, or listen.
Note: For this topic, you should also look at sources for the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Spread of Diseases




The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas (journal article)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2010
Food, Demographics, and Culture
Bridging World Cultures, 2017
Crash Course World History: Columbian Exchange
Crash Course World History, 2014
Primary Sources: A Collection of Primary Sources on the Columbian Exchange and Food
Digital History Reader

How Discovering the Americas Transformed the World
Spiegel, 2013

Charles Mann, 2011

Impacts of the Columbian Exchange (interview)
Smithsonian Magazine, 2011

How Disease and Conquest Carved a New Planetary Landscape
Atlantic Magazine, 2018


Primary Sources: Three sources on disease and food
University of Minnesota