The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History [Paperback]

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America

National Bestseller

Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction Finalist for the 2023Los Angeles TimesBook Award in History Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction Winner of the 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize

Named a best book of 2023 byNew Yorker,Esquire,Publishers Weekly, Barnes & Noble

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Eloquent and comprehensive. . . . In the books sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning.Kathleen DuVal,Wall Street Journal

In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidentaleither obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along.Washington Post Book World

The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, as a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.

Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and nonNative histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformativeló.