He has detailed his history with bipolar disorder and mental illness, including the potential the condition had to enable his writing career. He lives with his wife Antonia Feldman in Kensington, Maryland. Ĭozzens serves on the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize. Cozzens was named the 2016 recipient of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History for his book, The Earth is Weeping. He also received an Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater Knox College. Rivkin Award from the American Foreign Service Association, awarded to one Foreign Service Officer annually for 'extraordinary accomplishment involving initiative, integrity, intellectual courage and constructive dissent'. He received the Superior Honor Award from the US State Department in 1997. It is the recipient of the 2016 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History awarded for the best book published on the subject in the English language in 2016. Amazon highlighted it as one of the best books of 2016 in the history category. named it one of the top ten history books of 2016. Cozzens begins his narrative with the 1866 resistance movement led by Red Cloud. The Earth Is Weeping chronicles the Indian Wars for the American West in their totality. Peter Cozzens grew up in Wheaton, Illinois. He has written and/or edited over seventeen books on the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. Peter Cozzens (born 1957) is an American historian and retired U.S. In the 19th century, about 500,000 Native Americans lived on the United States soil.Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History Additional causes include conflicts with Europeans in individual fights and wars, tribal wars, assimilation, migration to Mexico and Canada, and declining birth rates.

Many estimate that infections ravaged the continents, while smallpox alone killed over 80 percent of them. Although the Europeans have developed some immunity to chronic infections, which were common on their continent, the results were devastating to America’s Natives. One of the largest cause was the infectious diseases European explorers and traders brought with them on the newly discovered continent. Many causes have contributed to the massive decline of the native population. According to the census from 2010, about 3 million individuals identified themselves as Native or Alaskan Americans, which represents less than 1 percent of the entire population of the United States. So far, scholars who have been trying to determine how many Native Americans lived on the North American territory before the arrival of Columbus estimate the number to be between 1.2 million and 18 million people. However, they continue their investigation in order to find out the exact number of the aboriginal people who inhabited the continents.

Researchers do not know how many people lived in the Americas before the arrival of the European conquistadors.

The earth is weeping by peter cozzens