Native Peoples and Redefining U.S. History

Historians Ned Blackhawk and Brenda Child join for a conversation on Blackhawk’s national bestseller, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, which just won the National Book Award. They explore five centuries of U.S. history to shed light on the central role Indigenous peoples have played in shaping our nation’s narrative. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates. This program was streamed live on November 1, 2023. 

Resources: 

 Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History   

Brenda Child, Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000 

Brenda Child, Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 

Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory 

Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas 

Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 

Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West 

Brenda Child, Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community 

Brenda Child, My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation 

Brenda Child and Brian Klopotek, Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education 

Michael Witgen, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America 

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