by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 21, 2014 | Black Death, Brian Fagan, Father Desmet, Marcus Whitman, Plague, Salem witch trials, smallpox, Weyakin
Smallpox didn’t rate a line in the ‘Western Civilization textbook that I used in 1961—The Course of Civilization, by Strayer, Gatzke, and Harison. In fact, the Plague, or Black Death, which some now think wiped out a third of Europe’s population in the mid fourteenth...
