Alan Shaw Taylor is a historian specializing in early American history. He is the author of several 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 joined the faculty of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia in 2014.
Books in order of publications:
Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier 1760-1820, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
American Colonies: The Settling of North America, New York: Viking/Penguin, 2001.
Writing Early American History, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, USA: 2012.
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804, W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Thomas Jefferson’s Education, W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850, W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873, W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
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