AKA Alan Shaw Taylor

Born: 17-Jun-1955
Birthplace: Portland, ME

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Internal Enemy

    University: BA, Colby College (1977)
    University: PhD, Brandeis University (1986)
    Professor: University of California at Davis
    Professor: Boston University
    Professor: History, University of Virginia

    Bancroft Prize 1996 for William Cooper's Town
    Pulitzer Prize for History 1996 for William Cooper's Town
    Pulitzer Prize for History 2014 for The Internal Enemy

Author of books:
Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (1990, history)
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1995, history)
American Colonies (2001, history)
Writing Early American History (2005, history)
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (2006, history)
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies (2010, history)
Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction (2012, history)
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (2013, history)

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