Beverly Gage:
This Land Is Your Land
Authors at the Library | Columbus Metropolitan Library
Join the Yale Club of Central Ohio and Columbus Metropolitan Library for a special evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian Beverly Gage, author of This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History.
📅 Wednesday, December 16, 2026
🕡 6:30–8:30 p.m. (Seating opens at 5:30 p.m.)
📍 Columbus Metropolitan Library – Main Library, Auditorium
96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, OH
🎟️ Free and open to the public. Registration requested due to limited seating.
Register and read more on the library's website:
https://events.columbuslibrary.org/event/17814663
About the Event
Professor Gage will discuss her new book and join a panel of distinguished historians from The Ohio State University to explore the places, people, and pivotal moments that have shaped American history.
In This Land Is Your Land, Gage takes readers on a journey through thirteen places and defining moments in American history, from the nation's founding in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream. Published during America's 250th anniversary year, the book invites readers to reflect on the nation's achievements, contradictions, and evolving ideals.
Evening Schedule
5:30 p.m. – Seating opens and book sales begin
6:30 p.m. – Book discussion with Beverly Gage
6:50 p.m. – Moderated panel discussion and Q&A
7:30 p.m. – Book sale and signing
About Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is a professor of American history at Yale University. Her acclaimed biography, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. She is also the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded.
Featured Panelists
The evening will feature four historians from The Ohio State University:
Christopher McKnight Nichols – Professor of History and Faculty Chair of OSU's America250 Initiative
Hasan Jeffries – Associate Professor of History
Bart Elmore – Professor of History
María Esther Hammack – Assistant Professor of History
Additional Information
Books will be available for purchase through The Book Loft, with a signing following the program. Parking is available in the Main Library's attached garage, subject to availability.
This event is presented in collaboration with The Ohio State University, the OSU Department of History, the Yale Club of Central Ohio, and the America 250-Ohio Commission.