Diseases unknown to them spread rapidly among Native peoples, who lack immunity to viruses and bacteria ...

For generations, teeming schools of codfish support Native peoples along the North Atlantic coast. After ...

The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Huron begin exchanging goods with French traders pushing inland from ...

“Virgin-soil” epidemics sweep through populations with no prior exposure to a particular infectious ...

European traders carry yellow fever to the Wampanoag Nation, located on the Atlantic coast between what ...

Smallpox infects traders along the coast of what is now known as New England, and the illness spreads ...

Pilgrims settle at what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod near the abandoned village ...

Smallpox halves the population of the Huron Indians in what is now known as southern Ontario, Canada, ...

During a smallpox epidemic in Boston, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston inoculates (purposefuly infects) his son and ...

Epidemics of smallpox and measles strike in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and ...