Books by Kathleen DuVal
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
by Kathleen DuVal
🏆 Joint winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History
🏆 Winner of the 2024 Cundill History Prize
In this sweeping, thousand-year history, Kathleen DuVal—a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill—offers an overview of the shifting dynamics among more than 500 native peoples before and after the arrival of European colonists. The Wall Street Journal described it as "an essential American history."
Interviews where books by Kathleen DuVal were recommended
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The Death of Stalin
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
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Augustus The Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco
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Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East
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The Shortest History of Austria
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
by Yanni Kotsonis
New History Books
New History Books
It’s a golden age for historical writing, as well-researched and sometimes quite specialist books by historians are written in an engaging style for a broad audience. On our new history books list, we keep track of some of the books coming out by Five Books interviewees and frequently recommended authors. We’re also scanning catalogues and highlighting interesting new history books being published that come to our attention.
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
by Tessa Hulls
2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners
2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners
Earlier this month, the winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded annually by Columbia University in New York and founded by Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), were announced. The prizes are awarded for a variety of categories across journalism, but also celebrate outstanding books. Below we’ve listed all the books that won in nonfiction book categories (James by Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
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No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
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Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
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Cuba: An American History
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
by Nicole Eustace
Pulitzer Prize-Winning History Books
Pulitzer Prize-Winning History Books
Every year, the Pulitzer Prize jury awards $15,000 to a “distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States.” We’ve compiled a guide to the winning books since the turn of the millennium.
