Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science.
We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don’t we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYĮncounters 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. She received the Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2019.
Pox Americana, her dissertation about the 1775–82 North American smallpox epidemic, was written while working part-time, and completed in 1999.įenn won the 2004 Cox Book Prize for her work Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-1782. Fenn entered the auto mechanic program at Durham Technical Community College and worked as a mechanic around the Durham, North Carolina area for eight years before returning to Yale in 1995 to complete her studies. Fenn originally planned to write her dissertation on millenarianism in Native American culture, but left her doctoral program at Yale before it was finished, as she was “bored” with academia. She wrote a book for the University of North Carolina Press as part of the The Way We Lived in North Carolina series, contributing part 1, Natives and Newcomers. and Lucienne Driskill chair in Western American History at University of Colorado-Boulder.įenn received a bachelor of arts degree in history (with honors) from Duke University in 1981, then attended Yale University, finishing her masters in 1985. Her book Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History.
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