Kathleen DuVal is the Carl W. Ernst Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studies early America, particularly how various Nativ...view moreKathleen DuVal is the Carl W. Ernst Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studies early America, particularly how various Native American, European, and African women and men interacted from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries. Her books include Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (2024) and Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (2015).view less