Podcasts Education Self-Improvement Conversations with Tyler Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War

Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War

Published: July 24, 2024, 11:30 a.m.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor is Tyler\u2019s pick for one of the greatest living historians. His many books cover the early American Republic, American westward expansion, the War of 1812, Virginian slavery, Thomas Jefferson, the revolutionary settlements in Maine, and more. He\u2019s currently the Thomas Jefferson Chair of History at the University of Virginia.

Tyler and Taylor take a walking tour of early history through North America covering the decisions, and ripples of those decisions, that shaped revolution and independence, including why Canada didn\u2019t join the American revolution, why America in turn never conquered Canada, American\u2019s early obsession with the collapse of the Republic, how democratic the Jacksonians were, Texas/Mexico tensions over escaped African American slaves, America\u2019s refusal to recognize Cuban independence, how many American Tories went north post-revolution, Napoleon III\u2019s war with Mexico, why the US Government considered attacking Canada after the Civil War, and much more.\xa0

Read a full transcript\xa0enhanced with helpful links, or watch the\xa0full video.

Recorded May 9th, 2024.

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