35 - An Interview with Alan Taylor

History of California Podcast

Nov 06 2020 | 00:44:14

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Show Notes

Today, we have a special interview episode with one of my favorite historians, Alan Taylor. Taylor is an American historian specializing in early United States history. He is the author of a number of books about the colonial history of the United States, the American Revolution and the early American Republic. Since 1995, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes and the Bancroft Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award for non-fiction.

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