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Beverly Gage

Authors at the Library

Join Pulitzer prize-winning historian Beverly Gage, along with a panel of experts, to discuss her road trip book through American historical sites.

Authors at the Library with BEVERLY GAGE

Wednesday, December 16 | 6:30 p.m.
Auditorium | Main Library | 96 S. Grant Ave.

5:30 p.m. | Seating opens, Book sale by The Book Loft
6:30 p.m. | Book Discussion with Author Beverly Gage 
6:50 p.m. | Moderated Q&A with panel of experts
7:30 p.m. | Book sale and signing

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Beverly Gage teaches American history at Yale. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize in American History, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. She is also the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror, and writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our history. From the birth of the nation in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream, This Land Is Your Land offers a guided tour of thirteen places and thirteen key moments that define America’s greatest successes and challenges.

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a document that proclaimed the liberty and equality of all human beings, but produced a country that often failed to agree upon—or live up to—those ideals. This Land Is Your Land is for everyone who wants to find that history—to experience it and confront it, to celebrate it and condemn it—in the places where it happened.

Gage shows that Americans can face their past and still love their country. Toss the book in the back seat—or listen on audio with the windows down—and join the journey.

ABOUT THE PANEL

• Woody Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, Professor of History, and Faculty Chair of OSU's America250 Initiative, Christopher McKnight Nichols 
• Associate Professor of History Hasan Jeffries
• Professor of History Bart Elmore
• Assistant Professor of History María Esther Hammack

EVENT DETAILS

The event is free to the public but due to limited seating registration is requested.

Beverly's books, as well as books by the other panelists, will be sold on site by The Book Loft.

Parking available in Main Library's attached garage, while available.

This author talk is presented in collaboration with The Ohio State University, The OSU History Department, the Yale Club of Central Ohio and the America 250-Ohio Commission.

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