Smith threatens Opechancanough The first Anglo-Powhatan war (1609-1614) was a brutal affair. Most British immigrants to the Jamestown Colony...

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

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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...