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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Alan Norton |Alan Taylor |Richard Feinberg |Marie Arana
In This Review In This Review American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873In his spirited narrative, Taylor shows how the destinies of the three North American powers—Canada, Mexico, and the United States—became forever intertwined. In the nineteenth century, the doctrines of aristocratic hierarchy, republican liberalism, and indigenous communalism battled for hegemony throughout North America.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Marie Simon |Marie Arana |Richard Feinberg |Alan Taylor
In This Review In This Review LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood MinorityLatinoLand is a sweeping, celebratory history of the diverse Latino contributions to American life. Arana begins with a terrifyingly bleak assessment of the genocidal racism of the early Spanish conquistadors and the biased colorism that continues to plague the Western Hemisphere.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
johnbatchelor.substack.com | Alan Taylor |John Batchelor
Prior to the Civil War, Americans did not have a nation. Instead, they lived in a union of states, each a republic that retained almost all domestic sovereignty…1850 to approximately 1874, 1876—those 25 years.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Alan Taylor
Amountain of historical studies testifies to enduring interest in the American Civil War, a conflict still politically relevant in a nation riven over how to remember it. Those doubting that there is anything fresh to say about the bloodiest event in the republic’s history should read Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor’s brilliant, panoramic account of the conflict. Applying a wide continental lens, he explores this crux of United States history and how it shook neighbouring Mexico and Canada.
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May 28, 2024 | 
historynewsnetwork.org | Alan Taylor
During the summer of 1860, the Prince of Wales, eighteen-year-old Albert Edward, the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and heir to the British throne, visited Canada.
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May 21, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Alan Taylor
“Nothing on earth is settled under this Constitution, but the principle that everything is unsettled.”–Henry Clay*Prior to the Civil War, Americans did not have a nation. Instead, they lived in a union of states, each a republic that retained almost all domestic sovereignty. Americans revered their Union, but that was not the same thing as sharing a sense of national identity. Indeed, union enabled citizens to avoid fully bonding as Americans by protecting every state from the others.
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May 21, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Alan Taylor |David Grann |Elie Wiesel |Marion Wiesel
A richly detailed, compulsively readable history of perhaps the most dramatic period in the history of North America. An authoritative, comprehensive history of two key decades in the history of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Continuing the series that began with Taylor’s American Colonies, this book explores the period that included the American Civil War, the French invasion of Mexico, and Canada’s transition from a British colony to a unified dominion.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
audible.com | Matthew Stewart |Manisha Sinha |Alan Taylor |James Marcus
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War. In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist inspiration for the first American Revolution.
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Apr 23, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Alan Taylor
THE REDISCOVERY OF AMERICA: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, by Ned Blackhawk “How can a nation founded on the homelands of dispossessed Indigenous peoples be the world’s most exemplary democracy?” This is the provocative question with which Ned Blackhawk opens his important new book, “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.” A historian at Yale and a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone, Blackhawk rejects the myth that Native...
