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In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, e

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

When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out