Beverly Gage is the
John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History at Yale. Her book \;G-Man:
J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century \;receive
d the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography\, the Bancroft Prize in American H
istory and Diplomacy\, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biograph
y\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography\, the Barbara a
nd David Zalaznick Book Prize\, and the Ellis W. Hawley Prize of the Organ
ization of American Historians. \;
\;
This Land Is
Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History \;offers an on-the-ro
ad\, behind-the-steering-wheel retelling of 250 years of U.S. history\, st
arting at Philadelphia&rsquo\;s Revolution-era historic sites and ending a
t Disneyland in the 20th-century California dream. On \;the 250th anni
versary of the Declaration of Independence\, it makes the case for explori
ng&mdash\;and reckoning with&mdash\;all 250 years of American national his
tory. It also has some fun along the way.
Kathleen DuVal is the author of the Pulitzer Prize&ndash\;winning \;<
em>Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. A history professor
at UNC-Chapel Hill\, DuVal is a Guggenheim Fellow and has written for the
\;Atlantic\, \;Time\, the \;New York Ti
mes\, and the \;Wall Street Journal. She appeared in the
recent Ken Burns film \;The American Revolution. She grew up
in Fayetteville. \;
\;
Long before the colonization of
North America\, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adap
ted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And\, as \
;Native Nations: A Millennium in North America \;vividly reco
unts\, the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples \;have \;re
mained&mdash\;and will continue far into the future. \; \;
Robert Parkinson is professor of history at Bi
nghamton University and the author of books including \;Heart of A
merican Darkness: A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early F
rontier. \;
\;
Tyrants and Rogues: Understandi
ng the Declaration of Independence \;is \;a narrative explora
tion of the 27 grievances listed in the \;document. It provides a &ldq
uo\;rogues&rsquo\; gallery&rdquo\; of the American Revolution\, delving in
to the people&mdash\;the British rogues and tyrants&mdash\;that lay behind
each of the charges the Continental Congress listed as the reasons for Am
erica leaving the British Empire. \;
\;
ASL interpretation will be provided for all Six Bridges sessions held in CALS Ron Robinson Theater. ASL interpretation for sessions at other CALS locati ons and Six Bridges venues (including CALS Main Library) will be provided by request. To request ASL interpretation\, please submit an ASL Interpreta tion Request form.
\nCALS will validate parking in the CALS Libr ary Square surface lot and the CALS Parking Deck. The entrance to the surf ace lot is located on 2nd \;Street near River Market Ave. The entrance to the parking deck is located on Rock Street and can be accessed from Pr esident Clinton Ave. Street parking is also available throughout the River Market District (free after 6pm and on weekends).
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