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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
May 30, 2024 · 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.
