The past isn’t even past, to paraphrase William Faulkner. In that spirit, a cadre of contemporary scholars and writers have recast, with heroic urgency, the history of North American peoples prior to ...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a minimally-edited transcript that originates from a program that uses AI. Anisa Khalifa: About a decade ago, historian, Kathleen Duval, set out on a mission to write a book that ...

American students are often first taught about Native Americans through the frame of European settlers, that native people were simply here when they arrived. But UNC-Chapel Hill history professor ...

Kathleen DuVal, Ph.D. '01, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book 'Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.' (Courtesy) Kathleen DuVal, Ph.D. ’01, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in ...

“Being in Relation: Indigenous Peoples, the Land, and Texas Christian University, 1873-2023” was published in May by TCU Press. The book combines historical scholarship with candid first-person ...

Distinguished Professor Kathleen DuVal was recently announced as the 2024 winner of the Cundill History Prize for her novel “Native Nations: A Millennium in North America,” which spans over a thousand ...

Children often learn about Indigenous cultures from history, but it’s just as important to know that Native American Indian cultures are still alive and strong in the modern-day, too. That’s why I ...

The Declaration of Independence is venerated for its poetic language and universalist prologue, with the soaring, “self-evident” truth that all men have the right to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of ...

Kathleen DuVal has a lot to say about early American history. Her latest book, Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, spans more than 700 pages and walks readers through early civilizations to ...

The history of North America’s Indigenous peoples is fraught with stereotypes – and often seen through a European lens. In Native Nations, historian Kathleen DuVal, at the University of North Carolina ...

NDN Girls Book Club director Kinsale Drake (Navajo), said the Tahlequah location was chosen to target young readers, but the event was for everyone. “We’re run completely by e ...