YGSNA Faculty Coordinator Ned Blackhawk Wins National Book Award in Nonfiction

On Wednesday, November 15th, Professor Ned Blackhawk (Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone) won the National Book Award in nonfiction for The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.

The book spans across five centuries, highlighting and recontextualizing the role of Indigenous peoples in the formation and evolution of the United States.

The Rediscovery of America has won numerous honors, including being named one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Best Books of 2023 and a New Yorker Best Book of 2023.

It was published in The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity of the Yale University Press. The series aims to showcase emerging scholarship in American Indian studies with an emphasis on shared, relational ties between Indigenous and Euro-American societies. By focusing on inquiry into Indigenous communities, the series seeks to expand the historical, literary, and cultural approaches to American Studies.

Blackhawk, the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies and YGSNA faculty coordinator, has been teaching at Yale since 2009, This book is dedicated to his wife, Maggie Blackhawk, and to the Native American Cultural Center community. Read more about the Rediscovery of America and the National Book Award in Yale News.