Jefferson Cowie’s work in social and political history focuses on how class, inequality, and labor shape American politics and culture. The Nation magazine described him as “one of our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience.” His most recent book, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2023. Freedom’s Dominion tells the dramatic tale of generations of local fights against the federal government that prop up a particular version of American freedom: the freedom to oppress others. Reviewers have called it “magisterial,” written with “eloquence and with brilliance,” and Cowie’s “most extraordinary book yet.”