The Bacon Free Library is partnering with the Ashland Public Library to bring you this conversation with Native American historian Kathleen DuVal. Listen in to learn more about the history of local Indigenous Peoples as well as for insight into their resilience and battle for self-sovereignty.

Professor, historian, and author Kathleen DuVal will discuss her book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.  According to The Wall Street Journal,  DuVal’s latest book is “An essential American history that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today.”

Kathleen is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her field of expertise is early American history, particularly interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans on the borderlands of North America. Her books include Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution and Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. Find her on X.

This program will be held over Zoom.  Please register to receive the meeting link.

To purchase a signed copy of her latest work, go to the Aesop’s Fable website and request a signed book in the notes section at check out.

RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.