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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:
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
Questions or comments about the show? Email us at [email protected].
Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.
Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.
You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.
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By National Constitution CenterHistorians 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:
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
Questions or comments about the show? Email us at [email protected].
Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.
Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.
You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.