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Yale University professor Ned Blackhawk, winner of the 2023 National Book Award, talked about the role of native people across five centuries of American history - from Spanish colonial expl…

Book TV presented coverage of the 74th annual National Book Awards. This event was hosted by the National Book Foundation in New York City.

Yale University history professor Ned Blackhawk and Patricia Limerick of the Center of the American West discussed the interactions between Native Americans and white settlers in the 19th ce…

Historians talked about westward expansion after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the political reasons for traveling west. They also discussed Kit Carson and other mountain men, and the i…

Professor Ned Blackhawk talked about the representation of indigenous peoples in the early writings of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). Professor Blackhawk is the author of Violence Over the Lan…