
Alan Shaw Taylor is a historian specializing in early American history. He is the author of a number of books about colonial America, the American Revolution, and the Early American Republic. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for his work. Taylor graduated from Colby College, in Waterville, Maine, in 1977 and earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1986. Currently a professor of history at the University of California, Davis, he will join the faculty of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia in 2014.

A Continental History, 1750-1804
2016

The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820
1990

Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
2006

A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
2021

A Continental History, 1850-1873
2024

2004

The Autobiography
2024

Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
1995

2005

The History of Whittier Alaska and the Portage Valley
2000