Resource person: Audra Bullard - office@clehighlands.com

Description:

Join Professor Alan Taylor for an examination of Thomas Jefferson’s program for public education and its essentiality to training citizens who would defend the republic against demagogues and tyrants. He will explain that, despite Jefferson’s urging, the Commonwealth of Virginia failed to fund such a program. He will explore the origins and early years of the University of Virginia and Jefferson’s attempt to reform the leadership class in that state. He will discuss the ways and whys of the frustration of Jefferson’s utopian vision.

Alan Taylor is a distinguished American historian and author, specializing in early American history. He won the Pulitzer Prize in American History for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013). He also won the Pulitzer Prize in United States History and the Bancroft Prize in American History for William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996). He is the author of nine other books and received numerous honors, including membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair (Emeritus) in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. In addition to UVA, he has taught at the University of California, Davis, University of Oxford, Boston University, College of William and Mary, and Colby College. He has a B.A. in History from Colby College and a Ph.D. in American History from Brandeis University.

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