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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– as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Kathleen DuVal, 2024
Kathleen DuVal, 2024

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  1. 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
  2. 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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  • NC LIVE: prepared search for Kathleen DuVal Library card 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
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Picture: Kathleen DuVal, 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph by Frypie; via Wikimedia Commons

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