Alan S. Taylor

Double winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history, for William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1996) and The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (2014). Taylor has redefined the parameters of American colonial history and the history of the early American republic. His westward turn complements the Atlantic turn in early American historiography, and his skills as a social and political historian enable him to offer a complex and coherent account of North American history from both sides of the U.S.-Canada border and in Indian Country from the colonial era through the War of 1812. In addition to his landmark monographs, Taylor is the author of American Colonies (2002), as well as of countless influential reviews and essays.