Alan S. Taylor

Alan Taylor has won two Pulitzer Prizes and the Bancroft Prize for history and was a finalist for the National Book Award. A leading historian of early American history, Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is also the author of Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier 1760–1820 (1990); American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1 2001); Writing Early American History (2005); The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (2006); The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies (2010); The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia (2013); American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804 (2016); and Thomas Jefferson's Education (2019).