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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– · Dates from the Library of Congress · 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. Place: Chapel HillSearch 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. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Pulitzer Prizes: Kathleen DuVal
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- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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Picture: Kathleen DuVal, 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph by Frypie; via Wikimedia Commons
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