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.
Series
Books
American Revolutions
A Continental History, 1750-1804
2016
Liberty Men and Great Proprietors
The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820
1990
The Divided Ground
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
2006
American Republics
A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
2021
American Civil Wars
A Continental History, 1850-1873
2024
The Secret Annexe
2004
William Cooper's Town
Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
1995
Writing Early American History
2005
The Strangest Town in Alaska
The History of Whittier Alaska and the Portage Valley
2000
The Assassin's Cloak
1990
The Civil War of 1812
American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
2010
The Cat Who Walked Through Time II
2003
Colonial America
A Very Short Introduction
2012
The Internal Enemy
Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
2013
Thomas Jefferson's Education
2019
American Colonies
The Settling of North America
2001
