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Alan Shaw Taylor (born June 17, 1955) is an American historian and scholar who, most recently, was the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. [1]
Jun 21, 2024 · But as Pulitzer Prize-winner Alan Taylor writes in American Civil Wars, this story—of fratricidal fighting, and of politicians carving a new nation out of nominally disparate polities—was not limited to the United States or its Confederate secessionists alone.
Alan Taylor was something of a transitional figure among British historians. He began with more than a touch of the old-style gentleman scholar about him but went on to become an early example of the media personality, in some ways a second-half-of-the-twentieth-century variant of this.
- Chris Wrigley
- 1994
Jul 24, 2024 · Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor is Tyler’s pick for one of the greatest living historians. His many books cover the early American Republic, American westward expansion, the War of 1812, Virginian slavery, Thomas Jefferson, the revolutionary settlements in Maine, and more.
Dec 1, 2011 · This is beginning to change. In Taylor, the strangest war in American history has found a first-rate interpreter. His new study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the conflict. Taylor has written several distinguished histories of the early national period.
- Brendan McConville
- 2011
Alan Taylor expertly weaves together the arguments and evidence of dozens of historians and anthropologists … plac[ing] the familiar themes of early American history within a broad context created by the intersection of the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Apr 28, 2014 · “Alan Taylor has established himself as the preeminent historian of a relatively neglected period in American history: the era of the War of 1812,” said Caroline Winterer, Stanford professor of history and director of the Stanford Humanities Center.
