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This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History
What stories does America tell about its own history? Pulitzer Prize winning author Beverly Gage set out to answer that question in her new book, This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History. Across 13 chapters, Gage road tripped through different parts of America, from Independence Hall to the Badlands of North Dakota, to see how Americans think about their past across museums, tours and, of course, all the many inexplicable gift shop tchotkes. Join Professor Gage in conversation with Rabbi Charles Savenor about her journey through 250 years of America’s ups, downs and everything in between.
This session is cosponsored by the Community Scholars Program (CSP).
Beverly Gage is the John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History at Yale University. She is the author of This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History, an on-the-road journey into the American past to mark the nation’s 250th birthday. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography, the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, and the Ellis W. Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians. Professor Gage is also the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror. In addition to her teaching and research, she writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, New York Times, and Washington Post.