This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History

How do the places where history happened shape the stories Americans tell about the past?

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage explores that question in a thought-provoking discussion of her new book, This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History, recorded at the 2026 Readex Breakfast during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

Dr. Gage draws on her travels to museums, archives, historic sites, monuments, landscapes, and communities across the country to show how history is interpreted, preserved, debated, and experienced in the real world.

Watch the full presentation to hear Dr. Gage connect travel, place, memory, evidence, and the power of curiosity, in a timely conversation about how Americans encounter—and continue to reinterpret—their shared history.

Dr. Gage is the John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History at Yale University and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.