Society of the Cincinnati Lecture featuring Kathleen DuVal, Ph.D.

kathleen duval

Date: Tuesday, Oct 6, 2026

Start time: 5:30 p.m. lecture | 6:45 p.m. reception

End time: 8:15 p.m.

Location: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Audience: Open to the public. Registration is required. Free for VCU students, alumni, faculty and staff. Enter promo code VCUHIST26.

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This talk by Pulitzer Prize winner and historian Kathleen DuVal explores what the American Revolution was like for Native Nations.

From Bunker Hill to Yorktown to conflicts on the British colonies’ western border, Native nations were part of the American Revolution. How they participated in it varied depending on their circumstances, and their choices affected the outcome and history ever since.

This is a ticketed event and registration is required.

Speaker

Kathleen DuVal is a Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America" as well as "Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution" and the U.S. history textbook "Give Me Liberty!" DuVal is a Guggenheim Fellow and has written for The Atlantic, Time magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She appeared in the recent Ken Burns film The American Revolution.

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Sponsor(s): The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia in partnership with the VCU History Department. Also sponsored by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and the VCU Humanities Research Center.

Event contact: Andrea Wight, wighta@vcu.edu