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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 ...
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.
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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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...
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 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.
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 28, 2014 · History professor Alan Taylor has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in history for his book The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (W.W. Norton), which chronicles how runaway slaves from the colonial era helped the British capture Washington D.C., during the War of 1812.
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.
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.
