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# Kathleen DuVal

Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America shared the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History and won the Bancroft Prize and the Cundill History Prize.

**Historian and author**

## Books

- [Native Nations](/book/native-nations)