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.
Sponsored i n Memory of Buddy Villines \;
\nASL interp retation will be provided for all Six Bridges sessions held in CALS Ron Ro binson Theater. ASL interpretation for sessions at other CALS locations an d Six Bridges venues (including CALS Main Library) will be provided by req uest. To request ASL interpretation\, please submit an ASL Interpretation R equest form.
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