Kathleen DuVal, 2008–09; 2025–26 | National Humanities Center

Kathleen DuVal (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2025–26)

Project Title, 2025–26

Yorktown: The American Revolution and the Making of the United States

Robert D. Newman Fellowship, 2025–26

Carl W. Ernst Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Project Title, 2008–09

Revolution Without Rebels: The Battle of Pensacola and the War for America

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kathleen DuVal

Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her field of expertise is early American history, particularly interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans. Her books include Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.

Selected Publications

Fellowship Work Summary, 2008–09

Kathleen DuVal drafted a substantial portion of Independence Lost: The Gulf Coast in the American Revolution, to be published by Random House. She also completed work on Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009), which she coedited.

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