Kathleen DuVal, “The People of Yorktown in Revolutionary Times”

Pulitzer Prize winning historian delivers the 2026 O. Meredith Wilson Lecture in History Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. She is the author of Native Nations A Millennium in North America, published in 2025. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. She is a coauthor of Give Me Liberty! and coeditor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America. DuVal’s lecture, “The People of Yorktown in Revolutionary Times,” is the 2026 O. Meredith Wilson Lecture in History, a distinguished lecture series in the Department of History. This event is cosponsored by the Department of History and Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center. Related events America250 Student Research Symposium on the American Revolution November 13 · Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House Revolutionary Era Rare Books Exhibit from Marriott Library Special Collections November 12–13 · Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House Views expressed in public events do not represent the official views of the University of Utah or listed sponsors. We are happy to have groups and classes come to our events. Please contact [email protected] for priority ticketing.