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

Research finds evidence of bacterial infections causing the disease centuries before colonization.Leprosy already existed in the American continent before the arrival of European colonizers. This is ...

Between the 15th and 20th centuries, just 10 European countries colonized nearly the whole world. Colonization brought technological advancement, infrastructure, education, and medical care even ...

The arrival of the first European fleets to the Americas in 1492 marked the introduction of new diseases to the Americas. Leprosy — in the form of the leprae bacterium — was among them.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Madelein Mackie Photo) For a long time, researchers have sought to estimate the size of North America’s Indigenous population before European colonization to fully understand its impact. A new study ...