Eloquent and comprehensive. . . . By presenting post-1492 history as a series of encounters between the various peoples of the Americas and the peoples from Europe, Africa, and Asiarather than as an account of Europes discovery of a new worldBlackhawk provides a view of that past from multiple perspectives. . . . In the books sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning.Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street Journal
Selected by New York Times Book Review as a Best Book Since 2000
Even as the telling of American history has become more complex and nuanced, Native Americans tend to be absent. Blackhawk, a professor at Yale, confronts that absence in this sweeping account of how Native Americans shaped the country legally, politically, and culturally.Washington Post, 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction (2023)
Blackhawk never lets us forget that his book is not a work of Indigenous history but rather one of American history. He eloquently argues that the enduring sovereignty of Native communities must be recognized as a defining thread of US politics.Nicole Eustace, New York Review of Books
A sweeping, important, revisionist work of American history that places Native Americans front and center.New York Times Book Review (cover review)
[ A] monumental reappraisal of the United States history. . . . Blackhawk . . . foregrounds the endurance of Native Americans autonomy and traditions in the face of their near-eradication.New Yorker, The Best Books of 2023
An ambitious retelling of the American story . . . placing Indigenous populations at the center, a shift in perspective that yields fresh insights and thought-provoking questions.Greg Cowles, New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice
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 . . . challenges those minimalizations and exclusions, showing that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along.Washington Post Book World, Books to Read in 2023
This ambitious retelling of the American story, by a historian who is also a Native American, places Indigenous populations at the center, a shift in perspective that yields fresh insights and thought-provoking questions.New York Times, 100 Notable Books of 2023
[ Blackhawks] book will become an indispensable text for a generation of researchers, educators and students.Caroline Dodds Pennock, BBC History Magazine
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best Book of 2023
Gripping and nuanced, The Rediscovery of America is an essential remedy to the historical record.Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire, The 20 Best Books of 2023
Building on years of groundbreaking work by Indigenous and settler scholars, Rediscovery clearly sets out how Indigenous nations were key actors in shaping the very foundations of the US, from the American Revolution and the national Constitution to the countrys eventual borders.Brian Bethune, The Walrus
2023 National Book Award winner, nonfiction category, sponsored by the National Book Foundation
2024 Mark Lynton History Prize winner, sponsored by Columbia School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation
Finalist, 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
Selected for the 2024 Michigan Notable Books list
2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner, nonfiction category, sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation
Ned Blackhawks stunning achievement, The Rediscovery of America, is the most ambitious and creative account of Native American history yet published. In a style both invigorating and urgent, Blackhawk delivers a major new synthesis of the field of Native American history and an elegant, masterful narrative of Native independence and sovereignty.Judges citation, 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize The Rediscovery of America is a testimony to the transformation of the field of American Indian history over the past several decades, and Blackhawk has abandoned the interpretive tools of generations of American historians.Brenda J. Child, University of Minnesota Ned Blackhawks elegant and sweeping account of American history illuminates five centuries of Native American history. He upends familiar narratives to reveal the enduring centrality and vitality of Native peoples in American political life.Barbara Krauthamer, Emory University Ned Blackhawk not only restores Native Americans to the core of the continents story but also offers a running analysis spanning immense times and climes.Andrés Reséndez, author of Conquering the Pacific
On his search to rediscover America, Blackhawk brilliantly rewrites U.S. history, illustrating that it cannot be told absent American Indians. This is the history text we have been waiting for.Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States
Richly told and deeply informed, The Rediscovery of America demonstrates the centrality of Indigenous Americans to U.S. history. Blackhawk shows that at every turn the enduring relations between natives and newcomers have shaped the course of the American republic.Claudio Saunt, author of the National Book Award finalist Unworthy Republic
Ranging across the continent and across the centuries, Ned Blackhawk skillfully interweaves American history and Native American history, demonstrating conclusively that we cannot properly understand one without the other.Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College
Refusing to tell simple stories of subordination or resistance, Ned Blackhawk shows how American politics, law, diplomacy, the economy, and popular culture become incomprehensible without a Native presence.Richard White, Stanford University
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