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Alan Shaw Taylor (born June 17, 1955) is an American historian and scholar who is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. A specialist in the early history of the United States, Taylor has written extensively about the colonial history of the United States , the American Revolution and the ...
Born in Portland, Maine on June 17, 1955, Alan Taylor attended Colby College, graduating in 1977. After serving as a researcher for historic preservation in the United States Virgin Islands (1977-79), he pursued graduate study at Brandeis University, receiving his Ph.d in American History in 1986.
Feb 25, 2022 · Alan Taylor, the author of “American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850,” has been named the winner of the New-York Historical Society’s 2022...
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Jun 22, 2022 · Professor Emeritus. (530) 752-4093. astaylor@ucdavis.edu. 4206 SSH. 1 Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616. Education. Ph.D., American History, Brandeis University, 1986. B.A., History, Colby College, 1977. Research Focus.
May 18, 2021 · In his stimulating new book, “American Republics,” the historian Alan Taylor takes us back to the decades before the Civil War, when America was not so much divided as it was fragmented.
Apr 14, 2014 · U.Va. historian Alan Taylor, one of the nation’s premier experts in Colonial America and the early U.S. republic, has received a Pulitzer Prize for his book, “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832.”
Apr 15, 2014 · UC Davis distinguished history professor Alan Taylor has won the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book about slaves assisting the British during the War of 1812.
May 21, 2024 · In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America’s three largest countries―the United States, Mexico, and Canada―all transformed themselves into nations.
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4 days ago · Double winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history, for William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1996) and The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (2014). Taylor has redefined the parameters of American colonial history and the history of the early American republic.
Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Associate Director for the Center for the Study of the Age of Jefferson.
