Mercatus Center | Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War | Conversations with Tyler @MercatusCenter | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor is Tyler’s 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’s 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’t join the American revolution, why American in turn never invaded Canada (and who would’ve won), American’s early obsession with the collapse of the Republic, how democratic the Jacksonians were, Texas/Mexico tensions over escaped African American slaves, America’s refusal to recognize Cuban independence, how many American Tories went north post-revolution, Napoleon III’s war with Mexico, why the US Government considered attacking Canada after the Civil War, and much more.

Recorded May 9th, 2024

Transcript and links: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/alan-taylor

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