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In this revelatory evening featuring the award-winning historian David Nasaw and celebrated journalist Mike Barnicle, we’ll re-examine post-World War II America, looking beyond the victory parades and into the veterans’ and nation’s unhealed traumas—the subject of Nasaw’s new book The Wounded Generation.

Moderated by Mike Barnicle

Don’t miss hearing from the recently announced Pulitzer Prize–winning author Kathleen DuVal about her book Native Nations, exploring the rise of ancient cities around 1000 CE through to the challenges of sovereignty in this millennium. DuVal and fellow Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Nicole Eustace will bring to life the history of these lands and Native peoples, offering a powerful and deeply informed conversation.

“A fresh, arresting history of the American Revolution as people lived it: facing forward. Molly Beer recovers the suspense, perils, and dazzling possibilities of the era, and her lapidary prose and keen sense of character bring Angelica Schuyler Church, her family, and her world to vivid, unforgettable life, making a great global event into a family drama, and vice versa.” - Jane Kamensky, president of Monticello/The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and author of A Revolution in Color.