Read the Revolution with Ned Blackhawk

Dr. Ned Blackhawk, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History at Yale University, joined the Museum on Thursday, April 16, for 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.

About 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.