Alan Taylor on 'Thomas Jefferson's Education'

Alan Taylor holds the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair in History at the University of Virginia. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner in History, Taylor will speak to his newest publication, "Thomas Jefferson’s Education," a social and political history of education in Virginia with an emphasis on Jefferson's experiences as a student, and his role in creating a republican postwar alternative, the University of Virginia. The book highlights the Revolution’s separation of church and state in fundamentally altering political culture and educational expectations in Virginia.

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Alan Taylor received the 1996 History Prize for "William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic" and the 2014 History Prize for "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia: 1772-1832."