The I Index

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

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70

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

69/100

Critics

44/100

Scholars

96/100

Author:

Ned Blackhawk

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Date:

April 25, 2023

A retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.

What The Reviewers Say

Alan Taylor,
The New York Times Book Review
The Rediscovery of America gets off to a slow start by belaboring a straw man: 'historians' who have neglected the American Indian past.
David Shribman,
The Boston Globe
A thoughtful, innovative, and provocative book that puts the first inhabitants of North America at the center of the history of North America.

Publishers Weekly
Striking a masterful balance between the big picture and crystal-clear snapshots of key people and events, this is a vital new understanding of American history..

Kirkus
A well-reasoned challenge for future American historians to keep Native peoples on center stage..