Beverly Gage
Gage speaking at the Naval War College in 2019
Title	Member of the National Council on the Humanities

Beverly Gage is an American historian who is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University, where she was the director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her 2022 book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, and also wrote The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror in 2009.^[1][2] In 2021, Gage was nominated to the National Council on the Humanities, and she was formerly a National Fellow for the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.^[3]

Education and career

Gage attended Yale College as an undergraduate, graduating in 1994 with a degree in American studies, then earned her Ph.D. in history at Columbia University in 2004.^[4]

In September 2021, she announced that she would resign as director of the Grand Strategy program, effective December 2021, citing concerns about academic freedom and a "board of visitors" that was formed at the behest of Yale donors Charles B. Johnson and Nicholas F. Brady to oversee her work.^[5] In an interview with The New York Times, she stated, "It's very difficult to teach effectively or creatively in a situation where you are being second-guessed and undermined and not protected." On October 1, 2021, the Yale history department issued a statement in support of her.^[6][7]

Her 2022 biography of J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography,^[8] the 2023 Bancroft Prize and Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History.^[9] It was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.^[10]

Works

• The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror, 2009
• G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, 2022.
• Gage, Beverly (2026). This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U. S. History. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-6680-3310-4. ^[11][12]

References

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• "How to Ensure This Never Happens Again - The election and its aftermath have revealed weaknesses in our democracy. Here’s how we can fix some of them." - The New York Times, January 8, 2021, by Beverly Gage and Emily Bazelon

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