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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 early American Republic .
Biography. 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. After a postdoctoral fellowship at ...
Feb 25, 2022 · 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)
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.This is the second Pulitzer for Taylor, a professor of history at UC Davis and a former Stanford Humanities Center fellow.
Apr 14, 2014 · University of Virginia 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.”. The Pulitzer committee’s citation calls the book “a meticulous and insightful account of why ...
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Apr 15, 2014 · Indeed, it’s hard not to be dazzled by the ease with which Taylor moves from the lives of individual slaves, to the history of a large planter family, to the fault lines of Virginia politics, to the national debate over slavery in the western territories, out into the Atlantic world to the history of the British Empire.”
