Kathleen DuVal earned her BA at Stanford and her Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies before joining the History Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (Random House, 2015) and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (Penn Press, 2006) and co-author of Give Me Liberty: An American History (7th ed., Norton, 2022) and Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). She is currently completing a book on Native North America from the eleventh to nineteenth centuries with the help of a Guggenheim Fellowship.