After the Spaniards first arrived in the New World in the 1490s, smallpox assisted them in overcoming massive indigenous ...

Re-examining historiographical claims about Indigenous de-population, de-centring diseases that loom large in the literature (particularly smallpox), and giving a new timeline for the devasting impact ...

A smallpox epidemic killed between 5 and 8 million of the native population in the following two years. Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable ...

Smallpox came to the New World in the late 1400s and early 1500s, decimating native populations in the West Indies and continental Americas. During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the ...

Get to know the history of South Carolina's Indigenous peoples. Learn about the Catawba and Cherokee nations and the Santee.