I got to this page by first going to the BYU Library page, then to Britannica Online, then searching William H Prescott. It might make you sign in when you click the link first.
An academic, but brief biography of the author as well as an assessment of his writing style and works. Provides good insight on the legitimacy of his historical novels and sources of more information (other biographies).
This is an amazing resource about smallpox, it's comprehensive and so interesting! "In some ancient cultures, smallpox was such a major killer of infants that custom forbade the naming of a newborn until the infant had caught the disease and proved it would survive."
Ancient Pueblo peoples or Ancestral Pueblo peoples were an ancient Native American culture centered on the present-day Four Corners area of the United States, comprising southern Utah, northern Arizona, northwest New Mexico, and southern Colorado. They lived in a range of structures, including pit houses, cliff dwellings, and pueblos, designed so that they could lift entry ladders during enemy attacks, which provided security. Archaeologists referred to one of these cultural groups as the Anasazi, although the term is not preferred by contemporary Pueblo peoples.
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