Lone Star College-CyFair’s History Department welcomes award-winning University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor and author Dr. Kathleen DuVal for a unique presentation March 2 on the American Revolution.
“Dr. DuVal’s presentation will offer the audience a fresh perspective on the American Revolution by moving the focus away from the traditional narrative of taxes and tea,” said Rob Holmes, LSC-CyFair Professor of History and Department Chair. “By looking at the event through the lens of outsiders (slaves, Native Americans, women, Loyalists) living on the fringes of the British Empire, her work helps reveal new complexities to a story we thought we already understood.”
Typically, this 18th century revolution brings to mind images of Boston taverns, Valley Forge, and Independence Hall and Americans remember France, not Spain, as the European ally in the war against Britain. However, Dr. DuVal, recognized for excellence in undergraduate teaching as a Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of American History, focuses her research on how various Native American, European and African people interacted from the 16th through the early 19th centuries.
Therefore, she will draw from her book “Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution”, sharing stories of peoples along the Gulf of Mexico - Spanish and French colonists, Native American nations, and free and enslaved Blacks - drawn into the conflict now known as the American Revolution.
Her 7 p.m. “Borderlands of the American Revolution” presentation will be available in person in the Center for Academic and Student Affairs (CASA) Room 110 or virtually at LoneStar.edu/DuVal-Presentation.
It’s not too late to register for spring classes with multiple Next Start options available. For information, go to LoneStar.edu/regcyfair or LoneStar.edu/nextstartcyfair.