Beverly Gage is the John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History at Yale Univeristy.  Her new book, This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History, was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2026.  The book offers an on-the-road, behind-the-steering-wheel retelling of 250 years of U.S. history, starting at Philadelphia’s Revolution-era historic sites and ending at Disneyland in the 20th-century California dream.  On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it makes the case for exploring–and reckoning with–all 250 years of American national history. It also has some fun along the way.

Gage is currently at work on a biography of Ronald Reagan, with an emphasis on the ways that debate over communism and the Cold War shaped his life and politics.

Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, a biography of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography, the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, and the Ellis W. Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians.  G-Man was named a best book of 2022 by the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Smithsonian.

Gage 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, New York Times, and Washington Post.

Gage is a graduate of Yale University (1994, BA, American Studies) and Columbia University (2004, PhD, History).