Conversation with David J. Silverman

Join Lewes Public Library, the History Book Festival, and Browseabout Books in-person at the library or online for a presentation by David J. Silverman, author of The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States, a sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history restoring the defining role Native people have played, and continue to play, in our national story.

David J. Silverman is Professor of History at George Washington University. He is the author of the award-winning This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and Troubled History of Thanksgiving, as well as Thundersticks, Ninigret, Red Brethren, and Faith and Boundaries. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, National Geographic, and the Daily Beast. He lives in Washington, D.C.

NOTE: this session is available to attend in-person or through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER and indicate which you prefer. Please visit https://delawarelibraries.libcal.com/event/16310178 for more details.