Early American historian Alan Taylor has won the New-York Historical Society’s 2022 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize for American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850. Here is Jennifer Schuessler at The New York Times: The book,...
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What are you reading this summer?
Check out Jennifer Harlan’s New York Times piece on the history of summer reading. Here is a taste: Something about these dog days, more than any other time of year, invites readers to bury themselves in a book — and...
Secession is not a new idea
Here is historian Alan Taylor at The Washington Post: In our polarized times, talk of secession blooms on the losing side of bitterly contested national elections. After the 2016 election, some liberal Californians proposed a referendum to seek independence. Last December in...
Christian historians and the “imago Dei”
Earlier today I posted on the politicization of the Judeo-Christian belief that human beings are created in the image of God. In this post, I want to cover how a belief in the imago Dei informs how I do history....
Annette Gordon-Reed Reviews Alan Taylor’s New Book on Jefferson and Education
When a Pultizer-Prize-winning American historian reviews a new book from another Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian it is worth a separate post here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Taylor’s book is titled Thomas Jefferson’s Education. Here is a taste of Gordon-Reed’s review at The...
The Author's Corner with Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor is Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. This interview is based on his new book, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2016). JF: What led you to...
Alan Taylor Channels Gordon Wood
By now many of you have probably read a review of Alan Taylor‘s new synthesis of the American Revolution. (We will be featuring Taylor in an upcoming edition of the Author’s Corner. Stay tuned). Writing in The New York Times,...
Alan Taylor Wins Another Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. Alan Taylor of the University of Virginia has won the Pulitzer in History for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. This is Taylor’s second Pulitzer. He won in 1996 for William...
This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “The Historian and Imago Dei”
Two weeks ago I wrote in this space about the relationship between the historians work and the reality of human sin. This week, I want to focus on the historian’s work as it relates to the Judeo-Christian belief in Imago […]