Events

Lexington, Valley Forge and Yorktown are familiar, but few Americans have ever heard of the capture of Mobile or the Siege of Pensacola—events that were critical to the outcome of the Revolutionary War, the future of the American South and the lives of the people of the Gulf Coast. In the 2018 George Rogers Clark Lecture, Professor Kathleen DuVal draws on more than a decade of research to illuminate the American Revolution on the Spanish borderlands, where Spanish and British forces clashed over territory along the Gulf of Mexico and where colonists, American Indians and African Americans fought for their own versions of independence and, in the process, affected the outcome of the war.

How to Watch

Watch the lecture live online by clicking here. (Tickets to attend the event are not available.)

About the Speaker

Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in early America and has a particular interest in cross-cultural relations on the North American borderlands. She is the author of Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (2015), which focuses on the Revolution on the Gulf Coast, as well as The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006).