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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, 1850-1873
2024
The Settling of North America
2001
A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
2021
A Continental History, 1750-1804
2016
A Very Short Introduction
2012
The Autobiography
2024
The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820
1990
1990
2003
American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
2010
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
2006
Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
2013
2004
The History of Whittier Alaska and the Portage Valley
2000
An Anthology of Daily Wartime Diary Entries Throughout History
2005
2019
A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion
2026
Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
1995
2005
