Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Associate Director for the Center for the Study of the Age of Jefferson. Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the National Book Award, and two Pulitzer Prizes, Professor Taylor has authored 11 books on early American history, including Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier 1760-1820 (UNC, 1990), William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Knopf, 1995), American Colonies: The Settling of North America (Viking/Penguin, 2001), The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (Knopf, 2006), The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies (Knopf, 2010), The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (W.W. Norton, 2013), American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 (W. W. Norton, 2016), Thomas Jefferson’s Education (W.W. Norton, 2019), and American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850 (W.W. Norton, 2021).