Read the Revolution Speaker Series with Ned Blackhawk

Dr. Ned Blackhawk, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History at Yale University, will join the Museum on Thursday, April 16, to present the third public program in the Museum’s 2025-2026 Read the Revolution Speaker Series with a lecture and discussion inspired by his book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Winner of the 2023 National Book Award) and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. Following the presentation, Museum President and CEO Dr. R. Scott Stephenson will host an interview conversation and facilitate a live Q&A with both onsite and online audiences.  

This special program will be held in the Museum’s third-floor Liberty Hall and will be broadcast live via Zoom. Guests with onsite tickets are invited to arrive early to view The Declaration’s Journey from 5:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. Doors open to Liberty Hall at 6 p.m. for onsite guests to see a featured artifact, enjoy refreshments at a cash bar, and purchase signed copies of the featured book.  

About Dr. Ned Blackhawk

Ned Blackhawk is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History at Yale University where he researches and teaches about Native American and U.S. history. He is co-director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Certificate in Yale College; faculty coordinator of the Yale Group for the Study of Native America; and co-director of the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project, a multi-institutional research and advocacy initiative that aims to redress misunderstandings of federal Indian law and support the scholarly development of American Indian legal history. Author and/or co-editor of four works in Indigenous history, his most recent monograph, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Yale U.P., 2023) won many national awards, including the National Book Award, and has been translated into eight foreign languages. His current work focuses on the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War in British North America and the place of Native nations in the unfolding Revolutionary War, portions of which have been featured and/or are forthcoming in The Boston Globe and The Atlantic. He is an enrolled member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada.