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Alan Taylor (born 1955) is an 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.

Taylor was born in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Colby College, in Waterville, Maine, in 1977. He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1986. Currently he is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis and a fellow of the College of William and Mary's Institute of Early American History and Culture.

His works include:

• 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 (won the 1996 Bancroft Prize, Beveridge Award, and Pulitzer Prize for American history).
• American Colonies, New York: Viking/Penguin, 2001.

Taylor's current research inludes a borderlands history of Canada and the United States in the aftermath of the American Revolution.

Reference is made to Taylor's work in:

• William Cooper (judge)
• John Christopher Hartwick
• Jedediah Peck
• David Shipman
• Daniel Nash

Taylor is a devoted Boston Red Sox fan, and is known for always wearing historically themed neckties.

External links

• The Pulitzer Guy, Colby College Colby Magazine, Winter 2002
• History Department profile at the University of California, Davis

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