Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our history. From the birth of the nation through to the California dream, This Land is Your Land offers a guided tour of thirteen places and thirteen key moments that define America’s greatest successes and challenges. As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Gage’s book and conversation with author-historian Edward Ayers is for anyone who wants to explore this country’s history in the places where it happened. Join this duo’s journey through America and This Land is Your Land.
Zoom Access
Click here to join the live broadcast: https://zoom.us/j/93706784642
The live broadcast will take place August 5, 2026, 6:00-7:15p.m. Eastern Time. The program will be recorded, and registrants will receive a link to the video recording, which will be posted to this page.
Additional Information
Attendees who purchase the $43 bundled ticket will be mailed a signed (book plated) copy of This Land is Your Land (hardcover, $30 value). Books will be shipped two week after the live event. They will be sent Priority Mail throughout the U.S., except in Massachusetts (Media Mail).
Beverly Gage teaches American history at Yale. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize in American History, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. She is also the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror, and writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Edward L. Ayers is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal and has won the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes for his innovative histories of Civil War America. He is president emeritus of the University of Richmond, where serves as executive director of New American History. His most recent book, American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860, was featured in the American Inspiration author series in September 2024.