A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia, and its effects were stark and blizzards and deep fr…

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