Kathleen DuVal, Ph.D.

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Kathleen DuVal earned her BA at Stanford and her Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies before joining the History Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (Random House, 2015) and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (Penn Press, 2006) and co-author of Give Me Liberty: An American History (7th ed., Norton, 2022) and Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). She is currently completing a book on Native North America from the eleventh to nineteenth centuries with the help of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Dec. 12, 2023

Episode 4: The Empire

Great Britain's conquest of New France in North America and its victory in the Seven Years' War inspired British subjects on both sides of the Atlantic to look forward to a future they could see but through a glass darkly, a…