Courtesy Posting: USNH Author Talk: This Land Is Your Land with Beverly Gage

The Unitarian Society of New Haven has announced the first of its 2026-2027 Author Talk series, presenting Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage. She will discuss her latest book, This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip through US History.

Billed as "the ultimate road trip into the American past," the book explores the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our history. From the nation's founding in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream, Gage takes us through thirteen iconic places that define America’s greatest ideals, contradictions, and challenges.

There will be time for questions and copies of the book will be available for purchase (at a 20% discount, courtesy of Possible Futures of New Haven) and signing.

Beverly Gage is a professor of American history at Yale University. Her bestselling biography, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.