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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...
Jun 22, 2022 · Education. Ph.D., American History, Brandeis University, 1986. B.A., History, Colby College, 1977. Research Focus. Early American history (colonial revolutionary and early republic); history of the American West; History of Canada (pre-Confederation) Publications.
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 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 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.
