Freeman Lecture: Constitutions for a Continent, 1783-1790

The University of Richmond's Department of History has named University of California, Davis history professor Alan Taylor the 2010-2011 Douglas Southall Freeman Professor.

The Douglas Southall Freeman Professorship was established in honor of the noted biographer and journalist by his family, and allows the department to bring a distinguished visiting historian to the campus annually. The Freeman Professor teaches one course and either delivers a series of public lectures or organizes an historical conference.

Taylor, who earned his doctorate from Brandeis University, is an expert on early American history. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic and The Divided Ground: The Northern Borderland of the American Revolution.

His lecture "Boundaries and Frontiers of the Early American Republic" will be presented in two parts.

This is the first lecture, "Constitutions for a Continent: 1783-1790," held on Thursday, Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m.

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