Local figure
Kathleen DuVal
Kathleen DuVal joined the UNC history faculty in 2003 and is the Carl W. Ernst Distinguished Professor of History, teaching courses that include Native North America, U.S. History to 1865 and the American Revolution. Her book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: Kathleen DuVal writes what she teaches
1970– as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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- Kathleen DuVal wins the Bancroft Prize UNC historian Kathleen DuVal won the Bancroft Prize for Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. She was the Carl W. Ernst Distinguished Professor in UNC's history department.Search the index · UNC College of Arts and Sciences: Kathleen DuVal wins Bancroft and Cundill prizes for her book Native Nations
- Kathleen DuVal wins the Pulitzer Prize for History UNC historian Kathleen DuVal won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, a history of Native American nations over a thousand years. She taught early American and American Indian history at UNC-Chapel Hill.Search the index · The Pulitzer Prizes: Kathleen DuVal
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- Chapel Hill Public Library (opens in a new tab) Public library in Chapel Hill
- Durham County Library (opens in a new tab) Public library next door in Durham
- UNC Libraries (opens in a new tab) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Duke Libraries (opens in a new tab) Duke University, Durham
- NC Cardinal (opens in a new tab) The State Library of North Carolina and public libraries across the state
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- Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 2 Orange County pages naming Kathleen DuVal DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Kathleen DuVal NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
Picture: Kathleen DuVal, 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph by Frypie; via Wikimedia Commons
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