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 ...

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 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 ...

A new study published in the journal Nature provides compelling evidence that syphilis originated in the Americas and spread globally through European colonization. A new study published in the ...

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 ...