Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Deverell is a historian focusing on the American West. A co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to California History, he is a professor of history at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

Fett is an Associate Professor of History at Occidental College. She is the author of "Recaptured Africans,” and her previous book, "Working Cures,” won the Southern Historical Association's Frank L. and Harriet Owsley Prize and the Organization of American Historian's James A... Read More →

Madley is an historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world history. Born in Redding, California, Ben spent much of his childhood in Karuk Country near the Oregon border where he became interested in the relationship between colonizers and indigenous peoples... Read More →

Snyder is an award-winning historian who teaches at Indiana University. Her first book, "Slavery in Indian Country," earned a wide range of accolades, including the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, the James H. Broussard Prize, and the John C. Ewers Prize. Snyder's... Read More →