Join American Ancestors’ American Inspiration series and Boston Public Library for an enlightening presentation featuring 2025 Pulitzer Prize–winning author Kathleen DuVal and her book NATIVE NATIONS, a comprehensive review of Native American history, from the rise of ancient cities around 1000 CE to fights for sovereignty that continue well into the 2020s. DuVal and fellow Pulitzer Prize winner Nicole Eustace will bring to life the history of these lands and Native peoples, offering a powerful and deeply informed conversation you won’t want to miss in the days leading up to Indigenous People’s Day.
Kathleen DuVal is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian. She is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and “The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent.” She is a coauthor of “Give Me Liberty!” and coeditor of “Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America.”
Nicole Eustace is Julius Silver Family Professor of History at New York University, where she directs the NYU Atlantic History Workshop. Her most recent book, “Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America,” won the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and was named Best Book the Year by TIME, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, and Kirkus Reviews. She is also the author of “1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism and Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution.” She is currently a Guggenheim fellow.
