Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Alan Taylor will deliver a lecture Saturday at the College of William & Mary’s Blow Hall.
Taylor’s lecture “The West & the American Revolution: Causes and Consequences” is free and open to the public. It will start at 3:30 p.m. in Room 201 of Blow Hall, according to a news release from the university. Seating is limited, so call 221-1115 or email [email protected] to reserve a seat.
The historian won his second Pulitzer Prize due to his most recent book, “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832.” The title was also a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award. He won his other Pulitzer for “William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic.”
Taylor is scheduled to become the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Chairat the University of Virginia. He has also served on the faculties of the University of California, David and Boston University.
The lecture is the first Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Council lecture ever to be held. Taylor was a postdoctoral fellow for the institute, a partnership between W&M and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, from 1985 to 1987. He also served on the institute’s council from 2002 to 2005.
Blow Hall is on Richmond Road across from the WaWa and Tribe Square. Parking is available on Richmond Road, with a limited number of additional spaces around the hall and in the main football stadium lot off Richmond Road.
