Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles is an American historian, professor at Harvard University and MacArthur Fellow who writes about African American and Native American history. All That She Carried, available as an audiobook and book, tells the remarkable story of a cotton sack passed down through three generations of Black women from slavery to freedom. The book won the National Book Award. Miles writes with meticulous scholarship and deep emotion, making history profoundly personal for readers and listeners.