An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Beverly Gage, Author of This Land is Your Land, a Ferguson Celebrates the USA at 250 Program

Kick-off of the Ferguson Library's Celebration of the USA at 250 with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Beverly Gage, who will discuss her new book, This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History.

In her latest book, Gage 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 13 places and 13 key moments that define our country'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.

Book sale and signing by Elm Street Books.

Registration required.

Beverly Gage teaches American history at Yale University. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, a biography of the former FBI director, 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, which examined the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on the 1920 Wall Street bombing. In addition to her teaching and research, she writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Washington Post.