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WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYWINNER OF THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZEWinner of the Bancroft Prize 2025Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize 2025For centuries, Europeans assumed that indigenous Americans lacked the sophistication to build cities and establish hierarchies. For over a millennium, prior to and after the arrival of white colonialists, however, native nations had been adapting to changing climates, founding and abandoning urban centres and forging complex, democratic societies.In this magisterial new history of North America, Kathleen DuVal puts indigenous people back at the heart of the story. From the splendour of ancient cities like Cahokia and Moundsville to the careful diplomacy of native leaders in the face of colonial expansion, Native Nations reveals the diversity of indigenous civilisation and shows how a 1,000-year legacy still shapes America today, in struggles over sovereignty, climate and indigenous rights.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history” (The New York Review of Books), from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue todayWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE, THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE, AND THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed.A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Then, following a period of climate change and instability, numerous smaller nations emerged, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. From this urban past, egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. So, when Europeans showed up in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand—those having developed differently from their own—and whose power they often underestimated.For centuries afterward, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In Native Nations, we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutch—and influenced global markets—and how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to command much of the continent’s land and resources. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. ambitions. The Cherokees created institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory.In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant—and will continue far into the future.“An essential American history”—The Wall Street Journal

This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take the reader beyond the traditional story of the English colonies. Readers explore the Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, German, and even Icelandic colonial efforts throughout North America, including California, New Mexico, Texas, the Great Plains, Louisiana, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New England. Throughout, the collection provides not only the perspectives of Europeans but also of Native Americans and Africans. By looking beyond traditional sources, students see the power and diversity of Native Americans and learn that European domination of the continent was not inevitable. They see different forms of slavery and ways that slaves dealt with their captivity. By considering multiple perspectives, students learn that colonial history was largely the attempts of various peoples to understand strangers and adapt them to their own will.

In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Rather than being colonized, Indians drew European empires into local patterns of land and resource allocation, sustenance, goods exchange, gender relations, diplomacy, and warfare. Placing Indians at the center of the story, DuVal shows both their diversity and our contemporary tendency to exaggerate the influence of Europeans in places far from their centers of power. Europeans were often more dependent on Indians than Indians were on them.Now the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado, this native ground was originally populated by indigenous peoples, became part of the French and Spanish empires, and in 1803 was bought by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. Drawing on archaeology and oral history, as well as documents in English, French, and Spanish, DuVal chronicles the successive migrations of Indians and Europeans to the area from precolonial times through the 1820s. These myriad native groups-Mississippians, Quapaws, Osages, Chickasaws, Caddos, and Cherokees-and the waves of Europeans all competed with one another for control of the region.Only in the nineteenth century did outsiders initiate a future in which one people would claim exclusive ownership of the mid-continent. After the War of 1812, these settlers came in numbers large enough to overwhelm the region's inhabitants and reject the early patterns of cross-cultural interdependence. As citizens of the United States, they persuaded the federal government to muster its resources on behalf of their dreams of landholding and citizenship.With keen insight and broad vision, Kathleen DuVal retells the story of Indian and European contact in a more complex and, ultimately, more satisfactory way.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Seventh Edition, Eric Foner welcomes acclaimed scholars Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr as co-authors. Together, they have enhanced coverage of Native American history with an emphasis on how it refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s urgent guiding theme. New pedagogical tools, including a guided interactive reading experience with support in developing critical thinking skills, are designed to help students get the most out of this beloved text.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Seventh Edition, Eric Foner welcomes acclaimed scholars Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr as co-authors. Together, they have enhanced coverage of Native American history with an emphasis on how it refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s urgent guiding theme. New pedagogical tools, including a guided interactive reading experience with support in developing critical thinking skills, are designed to help students get the most out of this beloved text.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Seventh Edition, Eric Foner welcomes acclaimed scholars Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr as co-authors. Together, they have enhanced coverage of Native American history with an emphasis on how it refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s urgent guiding theme. New pedagogical tools, including a guided interactive reading experience with support in developing critical thinking skills, are designed to help students get the most out of this beloved text.The Seagull Edition offers the complete text of the Full Edition in full color and a portable trim size with fewer illustrations and maps and an exceptionally low price.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Seventh Edition, Eric Foner welcomes acclaimed scholars Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr as co-authors. Together, they have enhanced coverage of Native American history with an emphasis on how it refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s urgent guiding theme. New pedagogical tools, including a guided interactive reading experience with support in developing critical thinking skills, are designed to help students get the most out of this beloved text.The Seagull Edition offers the complete text of the Full Edition in full color and a portable trim size with fewer illustrations and maps and an exceptionally low price.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Seventh Edition, Eric Foner welcomes acclaimed scholars Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr as co-authors. Together, they have enhanced coverage of Native American history with an emphasis on how it refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s urgent guiding theme. New pedagogical tools, including a guided interactive reading experience with support in developing critical thinking skills, are designed to help students get the most out of this beloved text.The Brief Edition is 30% shorter than the Full Edition and features a slightly smaller trim size. It shares the same pedagogical features of the Full Edition.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Seventh Edition, Eric Foner welcomes acclaimed scholars Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr as co-authors. Together, they have enhanced coverage of Native American history with an emphasis on how it refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s urgent guiding theme. New pedagogical tools, including a guided interactive reading experience with support in developing critical thinking skills, are designed to help students get the most out of this beloved text.The Brief Edition is 30% shorter than the Full Edition and features a slightly smaller trim size. It shares the same pedagogical features of the Full Edition.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Seventh Edition, Eric Foner welcomes acclaimed scholars Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr as co-authors. Together, they have enhanced coverage of Native American history with an emphasis on how it refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s urgent guiding theme. New pedagogical tools, including a guided interactive reading experience with support in developing critical thinking skills, are designed to help students get the most out of this beloved text.The Brief Edition is 30% shorter than the Full Edition and features a slightly smaller trim size. It shares the same pedagogical features of the Full Edition.

Give Me Liberty!?is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative American history that explains not just what happened but why. New pedagogical tools are designed to ensure students feel supported in analyzing primary sources, developing critical thinking and writing skills, and seeing the relevance of studying history.?In the Brief Seventh High School Edition, Eric Foner has worked with new co-authors Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr to enhance coverage of Native American history throughout the text with an emphasis on how it refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s urgent guiding theme.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers a concise and authoritative American history that explains not just what happened but why. Aligned with the nine-part structure of the AP® U.S. History course and filled with opportunities to hone AP® skills and to practice AP® writing, the text provides students with the foundation they need to be successful on the AP® exam and beyond. In the Seventh Edition, Eric Foner welcomes acclaimed scholars Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr as co-authors. Together, they have enhanced coverage of Native American history with an emphasis on how it refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s urgent guiding theme.AP® is a trademark registered and/or owned by the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by students and instructors alike because it pulls the puzzle pieces of the past into a coherent picture. Learning not only the “what” but also the “why” helps students take away key information and develop historical and critical thinking skills for the course and their lives beyond it.The authors have added timely new scholarship on women’s history to the Eighth Edition, with an emphasis on how this coverage refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s guiding theme.Students benefit from an interactive ebook reading experience with new tools that bring primary source documents, visuals, and maps to life. And instructors can choose from flexible new options that allow them to easily tailor our teaching and learning resources to their goals.The Full Edition features the complete text with all the pedagogical features and sources and a rich visual program.Highlights of the Eighth Edition’s new content:New coverage of women’s history throughout the narrative and primary source document features as well as in new author videos helps students see themselves in the stories of America’s history and brings new relevance to the central theme of American freedom.New “A Closer Look” features in the Norton Illumine Ebook bring history to life, with interactive map activities and video tours of key images in each chapter. These supplement the existing interactive “Voices of Freedom” paired primary source document features and “Visions of Freedom” visual source features in each chapter.New audio recordings of the “Who Is an American?” primary source document features are now available in the Norton Illumine Ebook. Now, every primary source document in the ebook includes an author-recorded audio reading.New assignable “Making the Most of Your Textbook” activity in the Norton Illumine Ebook helps set students up for success from the very beginning.Revised and expanded Primary and Secondary Source Collection provides hundreds of extra primary sources, now available in the Norton Ebook Reader with new secondary source excerpts.Updated Eighth Edition of Voices of Freedom companion primary source reader, with a new LMS-friendly Give Me Liberty! PLUS digital bundle option to make it easier than ever for instructors to assign the #1 bestselling reader in its most accessible and user-friendly environment. Learn more at digital.wwnorton.com/givemelibertyplus.Brief new primer on teaching U.S. history in the age of generative AI, found in the Instructor’s Manual.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by students and instructors alike because it pulls the puzzle pieces of the past into a coherent picture. Learning not only the “what” but also the “why” helps students take away key information and develop historical and critical thinking skills for the course and their lives beyond it.The authors have added timely new scholarship on women’s history to the Eighth Edition, with an emphasis on how this coverage refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s guiding theme.Students benefit from an interactive ebook reading experience with new tools that bring primary source documents, visuals, and maps to life. And instructors can choose from flexible new options that allow them to easily tailor our teaching and learning resources to their goals.The Full Edition features the complete text with all the pedagogical features and sources and a rich visual program.Highlights of the Eighth Edition’s new content:New coverage of women’s history throughout the narrative and primary source document features as well as in new author videos helps students see themselves in the stories of America’s history and brings new relevance to the central theme of American freedom.New “A Closer Look” features in the Norton Illumine Ebook bring history to life, with interactive map activities and video tours of key images in each chapter. These supplement the existing interactive “Voices of Freedom” paired primary source document features and “Visions of Freedom” visual source features in each chapter.New audio recordings of the “Who Is an American?” primary source document features are now available in the Norton Illumine Ebook. Now, every primary source document in the ebook includes an author-recorded audio reading.New assignable “Making the Most of Your Textbook” activity in the Norton Illumine Ebook helps set students up for success from the very beginning.Revised and expanded Primary and Secondary Source Collection provides hundreds of extra primary sources, now available in the Norton Ebook Reader with new secondary source excerpts.Updated Eighth Edition of Voices of Freedom companion primary source reader, with a new LMS-friendly Give Me Liberty! PLUS digital bundle option to make it easier than ever for instructors to assign the #1 bestselling reader in its most accessible and user-friendly environment. Learn more at digital.wwnorton.com/givemelibertyplus.Brief new primer on teaching U.S. history in the age of generative AI, found in the Instructor’s Manual.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by students and instructors alike because it pulls the puzzle pieces of the past into a coherent picture. Learning not only the “what” but also the “why” helps students take away key information and develop historical and critical thinking skills for the course and their lives beyond it.The authors have added timely new scholarship on women’s history to the Eighth Edition, with an emphasis on how this coverage refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s guiding theme.Students benefit from an interactive ebook reading experience with new tools that bring primary source documents, visuals, and maps to life. And instructors can choose from flexible new options that allow them to easily tailor our teaching and learning resources to their goals.The Full Edition features the complete text with all the pedagogical features and sources and a rich visual program.Highlights of the Eighth Edition’s new content:New coverage of women’s history throughout the narrative and primary source document features as well as in new author videos helps students see themselves in the stories of America’s history and brings new relevance to the central theme of American freedom.New “A Closer Look” features in the Norton Illumine Ebook bring history to life, with interactive map activities and video tours of key images in each chapter. These supplement the existing interactive “Voices of Freedom” paired primary source document features and “Visions of Freedom” visual source features in each chapter.New audio recordings of the “Who Is an American?” primary source document features are now available in the Norton Illumine Ebook. Now, every primary source document in the ebook includes an author-recorded audio reading.New assignable “Making the Most of Your Textbook” activity in the Norton Illumine Ebook helps set students up for success from the very beginning.Revised and expanded Primary and Secondary Source Collection provides hundreds of extra primary sources, now available in the Norton Ebook Reader with new secondary source excerpts.Updated Eighth Edition of Voices of Freedom companion primary source reader, with a new LMS-friendly Give Me Liberty! PLUS digital bundle option to make it easier than ever for instructors to assign the #1 bestselling reader in its most accessible and user-friendly environment. Learn more at digital.wwnorton.com/givemelibertyplus.Brief new primer on teaching U.S. history in the age of generative AI, found in the Instructor’s Manual.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by students and instructors alike because it pulls the puzzle pieces of the past into a coherent picture. Learning not only the “what” but also the “why” helps students take away key information and develop historical and critical thinking skills for the course and their lives beyond it.The authors have added timely new scholarship on women’s history to the Eighth Edition, with an emphasis on how this coverage refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s guiding theme.Students benefit from an interactive ebook reading experience with new tools that bring primary source documents, visuals, and maps to life. And instructors can choose from flexible new options that allow them to easily tailor our teaching and learning resources to their goals.The Seagull Edition offers the same text and document features as the Full Edition but includes only the essential images and pedagogy in a value-priced, compact format. Highlights of the Eighth Edition’s new content:New coverage of women’s history throughout the narrative and primary source document features as well as in new author videos helps students see themselves in the stories of America’s history and brings new relevance to the central theme of American freedom.New “A Closer Look” features in the Norton Illumine Ebook bring history to life, with interactive map activities and video tours of key images in each chapter. These supplement the existing interactive “Voices of Freedom” paired primary source document features and “Visions of Freedom” visual source features in each chapter.New audio recordings of the “Who Is an American?” primary source document features are now available in the Norton Illumine Ebook. Now, every primary source document in the ebook includes an author-recorded audio reading.New assignable “Making the Most of Your Textbook” activity in the Norton Illumine Ebook helps set students up for success from the very beginning.Revised and expanded Primary and Secondary Source Collection provides hundreds of extra primary sources, now available in the Norton Ebook Reader with new secondary source excerpts.Updated Eighth Edition of Voices of Freedom companion primary source reader, with a new LMS-friendly Give Me Liberty! PLUS digital bundle option to make it easier than ever for instructors to assign the #1 bestselling reader in its most accessible and user-friendly environment. Learn more at digital.wwnorton.com/givemelibertyplus.Brief new primer on teaching U.S. history in the age of generative AI, found in the Instructor’s Manual.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by students and instructors alike because it pulls the puzzle pieces of the past into a coherent picture. Learning not only the “what” but also the “why” helps students take away key information and develop historical and critical thinking skills for the course and their lives beyond it.The authors have added timely new scholarship on women’s history to the Eighth Edition, with an emphasis on how this coverage refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s guiding theme.Students benefit from an interactive ebook reading experience with new tools that bring primary source documents, visuals, and maps to life. And instructors can choose from flexible new options that allow them to easily tailor our teaching and learning resources to their goals.The Seagull Edition offers the same text and document features as the Full Edition but includes only the essential images and pedagogy in a value-priced, compact format. Highlights of the Eighth Edition’s new content:New coverage of women’s history throughout the narrative and primary source document features as well as in new author videos helps students see themselves in the stories of America’s history and brings new relevance to the central theme of American freedom.New “A Closer Look” features in the Norton Illumine Ebook bring history to life, with interactive map activities and video tours of key images in each chapter. These supplement the existing interactive “Voices of Freedom” paired primary source document features and “Visions of Freedom” visual source features in each chapter.New audio recordings of the “Who Is an American?” primary source document features are now available in the Norton Illumine Ebook. Now, every primary source document in the ebook includes an author-recorded audio reading.New assignable “Making the Most of Your Textbook” activity in the Norton Illumine Ebook helps set students up for success from the very beginning.Revised and expanded Primary and Secondary Source Collection provides hundreds of extra primary sources, now available in the Norton Ebook Reader with new secondary source excerpts.Updated Eighth Edition of Voices of Freedom companion primary source reader, with a new LMS-friendly Give Me Liberty! PLUS digital bundle option to make it easier than ever for instructors to assign the #1 bestselling reader in its most accessible and user-friendly environment. Learn more at digital.wwnorton.com/givemelibertyplus.Brief new primer on teaching U.S. history in the age of generative AI, found in the Instructor’s Manual.

Give Me Liberty! is beloved by students and instructors alike because it pulls the puzzle pieces of the past into a coherent picture. Learning not only the “what” but also the “why” helps students take away key information and develop historical and critical thinking skills for the course and their lives beyond it.The authors have added timely new scholarship on women’s history to the Eighth Edition, with an emphasis on how this coverage refines our understanding of freedom—the book’s guiding theme.Students benefit from an interactive ebook reading experience with new tools that bring primary source documents, visuals, and maps to life. And instructors can choose from flexible new options that allow them to easily tailor our teaching and learning resources to their goals.The Seagull Edition offers the same text and document features as the Full Edition but includes only the essential images and pedagogy in a value-priced, compact format. Highlights of the Eighth Edition’s new content:New coverage of women’s history throughout the narrative and primary source document features as well as in new author videos helps students see themselves in the stories of America’s history and brings new relevance to the central theme of American freedom.New “A Closer Look” features in the Norton Illumine Ebook bring history to life, with interactive map activities and video tours of key images in each chapter. These supplement the existing interactive “Voices of Freedom” paired primary source document features and “Visions of Freedom” visual source features in each chapter.New audio recordings of the “Who Is an American?” primary source document features are now available in the Norton Illumine Ebook. Now, every primary source document in the ebook includes an author-recorded audio reading.New assignable “Making the Most of Your Textbook” activity in the Norton Illumine Ebook helps set students up for success from the very beginning.Revised and expanded Primary and Secondary Source Collection provides hundreds of extra primary sources, now available in the Norton Ebook Reader with new secondary source excerpts.Updated Eighth Edition of Voices of Freedom companion primary source reader, with a new LMS-friendly Give Me Liberty! PLUS digital bundle option to make it easier than ever for instructors to assign the #1 bestselling reader in its most accessible and user-friendly environment. Learn more at digital.wwnorton.com/givemelibertyplus.Brief new primer on teaching U.S. history in the age of generative AI, found in the Instructor’s Manual.