Presented by the IHC Early American Research Focus Group Wednesday, April 30 / 3:30-5:30 P.M. / Free McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Pulitzer-prize winning historian Alan Taylor will discuss an important theme drawn from his book American Colonies, a significant new synthesis of colonial American history. Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, copies of American Colonies will be available for purchase and signing at this event. Taylor will examine the shifting sources of the peoples who repopulated North America in the wake of the great epidemics that shattered the native inhabitants. His presentation will emphasize the dramatic difference for British America between the 17th and the 18th centuries, which involved a shift from a primarily English to a far more diverse population where enslaved Africans predominated among the newcomers. Professor Taylor will consider the implications for how we think about colonial America and the American Revolution. One of the foremost authorities of early American history, Alan Taylor is professor of history at UC Davis. His books include Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (North Carolina, 1990), William Cooper’s Town: Power and persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Vintage Books, 1995), and American Colonies (Penguin, 2002). William Cooper’s Town won both the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for American History. This event is sponsored by the IHC Early American Research Focus Group. Top of Page <<Back