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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 ...
- Historian
- June 17, 1955 (age 68), Portland, Maine
- 1977-
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.
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Sep 30, 2016 · September 30, 2016. The American Revolution was “a very unpleasant war,” according to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor, a professor in the University of Virginia’s Corcoran Department of History. Taylor’s latest book, “American Revolutions, A Continental History, 1750-1804,” published in September, examines a wider scope ...
Apr 14, 2014 · April 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.”.
Feb 9, 2024 · Alan S. Taylor. University of Virginia. Historian; Educator. Area. Humanities and Arts. Specialty. History. Elected. 2016. 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).
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.
Apr 15, 2014 · April 15, 2014. News. Early American historian Alan Taylor has won a second Pulitzer Prize for his book, <em>The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832.</em> 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.
