the Ruined Roman Republic,» Smithsonian, November 6, 2018, https://getpocket.com/explore/item/lessons-in-the-decline-of-democracy-from-the-ruined-roman-republic.

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Jerald T. Milanich and Charles Hudson, Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993).

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Cameron B. Wesson, «De Soto (Probably) Never Slept Here: Archaeology, Memory, Myth, and Social Identity,» International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16, no. 2 (2012): 418–435.

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John E. Worth et al., «The Discovery and Exploration of Tristán de Luna y Arellano’s 1559–1561 Settlement on Pensacola Bay,» Historical Archaeology 54, no. 2 (2020): 472–501, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-020-00240-w.

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Paul E. Hoffman, «Did Coosa Decline Between 1541 and 1560?» The Florida Anthropologist 50, no. 1 (March 1997).

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Paul Kelton, «Avoiding the Smallpox Spirits: Colonial Epidemics and Southeastern Indian Survival,» Ethnohistory 51, no. 1 (Winter 2004).

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Marvin T. Smith, «Understanding the Protohistoric Period in the Southeast,» Revista de Archaeologia Americana no. 23, Arqueologia Historica (2005): 215–229.

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Brenda J. Baker et al., «The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis: Paleopathological Diagnosis and Interpretation [and Comments and Reply],» Current Anthropology 29, no. 5 (1988): 703–737.

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Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003); William M. Denevan, «Introduction,» in The Native Population of the Americas in 1492, ed. William M. Denevan (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976), 1–12; Henry F. Dobyns, «Disease Transfer at Contact,» Annual Review of Anthropology 22 (1993): 273–291; and Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian, «The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas,» Journal of Economic Perspectives 24, no. 2 (2010): 163–188.

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A. Gwynn Henderson and David Pollack, «Chapter 17: Kentucky,» in Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, vol. 1, ed. Daniel S. Murphree (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2012), 393–440.

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Henderson and Pollack, «Kentucky,» 415.

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«Malaria in Kentucky: Prevalence and Geographic Distribution,» Public Health Reports (1896–1970) 32, no. 31 (1917): 1215–1221, www.jstor.org/stable/4574589.

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An entire edited volume is dedicated to just this type of contextualization. See Geoffrey E. Braswell, ed., The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors: Settlement Patterns, Architecture, Hieroglyphic Texts, and Ceramics (New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014).

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Christopher Begley, «Elite Power Strategies and External Connections in Ancient Eastern Honduras» (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1999).

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Arnaldo Momigliano, «La Caduta Senza Rumore Di Un Impero Nel 476 D. C.,» Annali Della Scuola Normale Superiore Di Pisa. Classe Di Lettere E Filosofia 3, no. 2 (1973): 397–418.

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Synesius of Cyrene, The Letters of Synesius of Cyrene, trans. Augustine Fitzgerald (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1926).

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Alexander Koch et al., «Earth System Impacts of the European Arrival and Great Dying in the Americas After 1492,» Quaternary Science Reviews 207 (March 2019): 13–36.

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Dahlia Schweitzer, Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018).

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S. N. Eisenstadt, «Beyond Collapse,» in The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations, eds. N. Yoffee and G. L. Cowgill (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988), 236–243.

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Joseph A. Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies, New Studies in Archaeology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

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Patricia Ann McAnany and Norman Yoffee, eds., Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

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Guy D. Middleton, «Nothing Lasts Forever: Environmental Discourses on the Collapse of Past Societies,» Journal of Archaeological Research 20 (2012): 257–307.

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Gwendolyn Foster, Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of the Apocalypse (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

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Bianca Spriggs used this term during an interview for my radio segment Future Tense, available at https://esweku.org/track/2367716/future-tense-with-chris-begley.

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Patricia Clifford, «Why Did So Few Novels Tackle the 1918 Pandemic?» Smithsonian, November 2017, www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/flu-novels-great-pandemic-180965205.

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment (San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2018), chapter 5.

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Dunbar-Ortiz, Loaded, chapter 5.

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Brian Aldiss, Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction (New York: Doubleday, 1973).

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Casey Ryan Kelly, «Man-pocalypse: Doomsday Preppers and the Rituals of Apocalyptic Manhood,» Text and Performance Quarterly 36, nos. 2–3 (2016): 95–114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2016.1158415.

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Alfred Kidder, «Introduction,» in Prehistoric Southwesterners from Basketmaker to Pueblo, ed. C. Amsden (Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1949), xi — xiv.

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This is discussed in many journalistic articles, such as: Sable Aradia, «Sexism in the Apocalypse,» Between the Shadows blog, September 1, 2017, www.patheos.com/blogs/betweentheshadows/2017/09/sexism-in-the-apocalypse/.

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K. Sugg, «The Walking Dead: Late Liberalism and Masculine Subjection in Apocalypse Fictions,» Journal of American Studies 49, no. 4 (2015): 793–811, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875815001723.

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Christian Ingraham, «Spike in Violent Crime Follows Rise in Gun-Buying During Social Upheaval,» Washington Post, July 15, 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/15/gun-sales-jump-protests-coronavirus/.

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Susan Sontag, «The Imagination of Disaster,» in Against Interpretation, and Other Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966), 157.

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Sontag, «The Imagination of Disaster,» 158.

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Congressional Record, 111th Congress, First Session, «On the Endorsement of One Second After by William R. Fortschen,» Extension of Remarks section, vol. 155, no. 70 (May 7, 2009), www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2009/5/7/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E1103-1.

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Ronald Reagan, White House Diaries, entry October 10, 1983, online at www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/white-house-diaries/diary-entry-10101983/. Reagan’s remarks are discussed in Matthew Gault, «This TV Movie About Nuclear War Depressed Ronald Reagan,» War Is Boring blog, Medium.com, 2015, https://medium.com/war-is-boring/this-tv-movie-about-nuclear-war-depressed-ronald-reagan-fb4c25a50045.

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