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How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton inf

There is no question that European colonization introduced smallpox, measles, and other infectious diseases to the Americas, causing considerable harm and death

A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet little is known about it. Fenn reveals how deeply

Disease ecology of the Native Southeast, 1000-1492 -- The protohistoric puzzle, 1492-1659 -- Slave raids and smallpox, 1659-1700 -- The epidemiological origins

The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follow