Explore the colonization of the Americas in the 18th century, a pivotal era marked by European expansion, cultural clashes, ...

European colonizers were thought to have brought leprosy to the Americas, but a new study reveals it existed there for thousands of years and spread by a recently discovered bacteria species.

The discovery of Mycobacterium lepromatosis suggests leprosy was present in the Americas long before Europeans, altering the ...

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

Without colonization, various regions of the ... And Latin America would not have developed the multiracial European/Native American/African ethnic fusion it has today. This might all have added ...

The outbreak of a mysterious disease ravaged Europe in the late 15th century, shortly after Christopher Columbus and his crew returned from the Americas. Experts have debated for centuries where ...

Historians have for a long time believed that leprosy was introduced to the Americas by European settlers, but the latest research offers strong evidence to the contrary – suggesting that Indigenous ...

The early history of European colonization of America is often romanticized, but this is far from the messy truth. In reality, colonization was achieved by rival groups of settlers with competing ...

Her book documents the “Indigenous perspective of the tribes of the New England area on the impacts of European colonization,” according to PEN America, a nonprofit group committed to free ...

When discussing space exploration, people often invoke stories about the exploration of our own planet, like the European conquest and colonization of the Americas, or the march westward in the ...

Leprosy was therefore already affecting American indigenous peoples well before European colonization. The study authors analyzed more than 800 samples taken from ancient remains in Canada and ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS ...