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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...
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.
Sep 6, 2016 · In 2001 Alan Taylor, one of America’s most distinguished historians and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, published a well-received book entitled “American Colonies,” which he regarded as “a...
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.”
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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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.
Sep 6, 2016 · Alan Taylor is a historian at the University of Virginia. He has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history, most recently in 2014 for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832. His latest book, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804, has just been published.
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.
May 18, 2021 · Alan Taylor, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History, is the author of American Revolutions and American Republics, prior volumes in his acclaimed continental history of the United States. He is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Top.
Sep 30, 2016 · UVA historian Alan Taylor’s latest book presents a comprehensive story of the American Revolution and its impact on survivors and the surrounding territories, as well as complications it left in its wake.
Born and raised in Maine, Alan Taylor teaches American and Canadian history at the University of Virginia. His books include The Divided Ground, Writing Early American History, American Colonies, and William Cooper’s Town, which won the Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes for American history.
In this episode of Talks at GS, Alan Taylor, Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian and professor at the University of Virginia discusses his new book, "American Republics: A Continental History of...
Oct 25, 2017 · In his talk, historian Alan Taylor discusses this intriguing irony—that republican reliance on popular sovereignty complicated efforts by elites to improve voters through education.
Jun 13, 2012 · U.S. historian Alan Taylor, visiting Toronto's Fort York, argues that the War of 1812 was a civil war in which those on opposing sides of the U.S.-Canada border were remarkably similar.
A masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. 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 ...
Feb 6, 2018 · So does Alan Taylor’s American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804. Taylor brings the bicentennial scholarship together, including all its gains about people who were not white and/or male.
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. By Alan Taylor. This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war.
Oct 28, 2016 · Yet in his new book, "American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804," Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning historian Alan Taylor makes the familiar events seem shockingly,...
6 days ago · A Continental History, 1850–1873 by Alan Taylor W.W. Norton, 534 pp., $39.99. IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, across a swath of North America, a new nation cracked apart, unleashing waves of bloodshed that left no state untouched. Guerrillas strafed the countryside, while competing armies circled one another, clashing over a country’s destiny.
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor. W.W. Norton. See all the pieces in the Slate Book Review.
Dec 2, 2001 · Alan Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at the University of California at Davis, expertly weaves together the arguments and evidence of dozens of historians...
Aug 24, 2021 · Alan Taylor, a professor of history at the University of Virginia and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, isn’t among the historians who have prominently utilized social media and other...
Buffalo Bills legend Bruce Smith is the only player in NFL history to reach 200 career sacks. ... Alan Page (148.5) ... and Taylor's spot as the all-time New York Giants sack leader is a prime ...
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