In acknowledgement of the US Semiquincentennial of the American Revolution subsequent flight of our Loyalist ancestors to British North America, Toronto Branch of UELAC is indeed privileged to have as a speaker, Professor Alan Taylor, who is one of the most distinguished historians of North America from the colonial era to the nineteenth century and a leading voice in rethinking the history of the American Revolution via zoom on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, at 7:30 pm
Dr. Taylor’s talk entitled “The Divisions of Revolution: Loyalists, Patriots, and the Disaffected” will examine the clashing identities and ideas of the diverse peoples caught up in the American Revolution and compelled to make difficult, life-threatening choices.
Alan Shaw Taylor is an American historian and scholar who, most recently, was the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. A specialist in the early history of the United States, Taylor has written extensively about the colonial history of the United States, the American Revolution, and the early American Republic.
Professor Taylor has earned international recognition, including two Pulitzer Prizes for History. In books such as American Revolutions: A Continental History 1750–1804, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderlands of the American Revolution, and The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels & Indian Allies, he demonstrates that the revolutionary upheavals of the era reshaped the entire continent—not just the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
After his talk, Toronto Branch Vice-President, Dr. Jonathan Mills, who is himself an experienced public speaker and academic researcher with a personal passion for history and genealogy, will ask a few follow up questions.
The zoom link will be sent to all Toronto Branch members or email torontouel@gmail.com to have one sent to you
Sally Gustin UE, Programme Coordinator, Toronto Branch, UELAC
