"[T]here remains the simple fact that the Black Death was, indeed, the greatest and most sustained demographic disaster in the history...

Epidemic disease has been a decisive factor in many of history's turning points. The "black death" (bubonic plague) has been c...

Sometimes a book that I have not read will validate something I have been saying for many years. Of course, this can be predictable, especia...

The Columbian Exchange (1972) by Alfred W. Crosby is among a small number of texts with which every American historian has some familiari...

The book table at Costco proves an irresistible lure, but the barbs there leave my jaw aching. Increasingly since the historic election of 2...

Still working on an article that no one will ever read for an encyclopedia that no one will ever buy, I just came across a few marvelous art...

I have remarked previously that Voices of a People’s History of the United States  (2004) by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove offers a genero...

Tuberculosis In A Patriot's History , Schweikart and Allen’s claim that “[t]uberculosis existed in Central and North America” (8) appear...

In his article for History News Network , “Why It's Time for a Patriot's History of the United States,” Larry Schweikart makes a nu...

In the summer I eat fewer bananas and catch more fish. I cut down on fruit that seems to make me more attractive to the mosquitoes that inha...

War, Slavery, Disease In A People’s History of the United States , Howard Zinn offers potentially inflated figures of the number of Indi...

Praise and Expectations At first glance John D. Daniels, “The Indian Population of North America in 1492,” William and Mary Quartery (Apr...

Four-Day Slaughter: 80,400 Killed After enlarging the Great Temple with shrines to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc in 1487, Mexica priests slau...