Elizabeth A Fenn: 2 books
Encounters at the Heart of the World
A History of the Mandan People
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and...
Pox Americana
The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth
A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to...