American Revolutions with Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor joins us to talk about American Revolutions: A Continental History 1750-1804, and much else.  Few scholars have influenced our understanding of Early American history more than Taylor,  the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia.  HIs second book, William Cooper's Town,, was hailed as a triumph of "micro-history," examining in detail a small place and from it illuminating a larger world.  His three "continental histories" take a broad approach to early American history, and tell a big, complicated story in an elegant way.  The recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes in history, Taylor talks about the American frontiers, slavery, constitutions,  Lord Dunmore, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "My Kinsman, Major Molineux."

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