Roanoke Colony
These nations and tribes where therefore savaged in three ways. One was by disease introduced by the Europeans. The second was by the Comanche empire, which also terrorized European settlers. And the third was by the Europeans, who took advantage of the destabilization of the Plains Indians in order to kill the remnants or herd them into places res
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
A fan of both Herman Melville and long-forgotten archives, Grann landed on the journals of a 16-year-old midshipman who was stranded with his crew members on an island off the coast of Patagonia. It was not the document’s descriptions of typhoons, shipwreck, or mutinies, however captivating, that convinced Grann the story of The Wager was worth res... See more
Chronicler of the Flower Moon
Around 13,000 years ago they were supposed to have followed an arduous crossing from Beringia, the land bridge between Russia and Alaska, passing south between terrestrial glaciers, over frozen mountains – all because, for some reason, it never occurred to any of them to build a boat and follow the coast.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Professor aims to catalog 'drowned towns' of the American West
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