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Kathleen DuVal

Kathleen DuVal is the Carl W. Ernst Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her Native Nations: A Millennium in North America won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize.

Great Americans: The Strange Dependence of an Independent Woman

Thrust into running her family’s South Carolina plantations at 16, Eliza Lucas Pinckney forged a far more independent life than what we might imagine…

June 24, 2026

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