CSMP

Bio: Alan S. Taylor serves as the Statewide Faculty Advisor for the CHSSP. Since 1994, Taylor has been a professor at UC Davis, where he teaches courses in early American history, the American West, and the history of Canada. His commitment to quality teaching, K-16, was recognized in 2002 when he won the UC Davis Award for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement and the Phi Beta Kappa, Northern California Association, Teaching Excellence Award. Taylor is the author of five books: Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820; William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic; American Colonies; Writing Early American History, and The Divided Ground. William Cooper’s Town won the 1996 Pulitzer, Beveridge, and Bancroft Prizes. American Colonies won the 2001 Gold Medal for Non-Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. In 2007, The Divided Ground won the annual book prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the Triennial Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati.