Alan Taylor (historian)

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Alan S. Taylor (born June 17, 1955 in Portland , Maine ) is an American historian. His research focuses on the colonial history of North America , the American Revolution , the Young Republic , the pre-confederation phase of Canada and the history of the western United States.

Life

Taylor studied at Colby College in Waterville , Maine, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1977 . After a research stay from 1977 to 1979 on the American Virgin Islands to investigate the preservation of monuments there , Taylor continued his studies at Brandeis University . In 1986 his promotion to Ph.D. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg , Virginia . From 1987 to 1994 he taught in the Department of History at Boston University . In 1994 he moved to the University of California, Davis , where he taught as a professor until 2014. Since 2014 he has the Chair Thomas Jefferson Chair in American History at the University of Virginia held.

In 2010, Taylor Douglas Southall was Freeman Visiting Professor at the University of Richmond . In 2016 he was Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford .

Taylor's books have won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize . His book William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic won the Pulitzer Prize for History , the Bancroft Prize from Columbia University , the Manuscript Award from the New York State Historical Association , and the Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association . His book American Colonies won the gold medal in the non-fiction category of the 2002 California Book Awards of the Commonwealth Club of California . His book The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution won the 2007 Book Prize of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic . For The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 Taylor won his second Pulitzer Prize for History, as well as the Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians in the category Social History .

In 2016 Taylor was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2020 to the American Philosophical Society .

Publications (selection)

  • Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1990
  • William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic . Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York 1996
  • American Colonies. Viking-Penguin, New York 2001; Allan Lane-Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0713995882
  • (Eds.): Lewis & Clark: Journey to Another America . Missouri Historical Society Press, St. Louis 2003
  • Writing Early American History . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2005
  • The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution . Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2006
  • The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies . Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2010
  • The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 . WW Norton & Company , New York 2013
  • American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 . WW Norton & Company, NY 2016

Web links

  • Biography on the University of Virginia website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History , website of the Rothermere American Institute
  2. ^ Merle Curti Award Winners , Organization of American Historians website
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, Alan S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Maine