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SUMMARY:Gary R. Hess Lecture in Policy History with Dr. Alan Taylor
LOCATION:Bowen-Thompson Student Union Multi-purpose Room (228)\, Bowen-Tho
 mpson Student Union 1001 E Wooster St \, Bowling Green\, OH 43402
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Department of History as we welcome distinguis
 hed historian Dr. Alan Taylor\, who will present the Gary R. Hess Lecture
  in Policy History. His lecture is titled "Completing the Revolution: Wes
 tern Expansion\, Foreign Entanglements and Internal Conflicts\, 1783-1796
 ." The end of the War of the American Revolution provided the new United 
 States with a vast western territory that was potentially either a windfa
 ll or a curse. To gain full control\, the new nation felt driven to suppr
 ess Native nations and fend off their British and Spanish allies. During 
 the 1780s\, that struggle produced a crisis that nearly blew apart the te
 nuous union of the states and led to the push for a new constitution mean
 t to endow the nation with the means to control and develop the West.\n\n
 Alan Taylor is a distinguished American historian who earned his Ph.D. fr
 om Brandeis University (1986) and has held prestigious professorships at 
 Boston University\, UC Davis\, the University of Virginia (Thomas Jeffers
 on Foundation Chair)\, and Oxford University (Harmsworth Professor). He h
 as authored twelve books on early American history\, including William Co
 oper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic (
 1995) and The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia (2013)\, both o
 f which won Pulitzer Prizes\, and his 2021 work American Republics: A Con
 tinental History of the United States\, 1783-1850 received the Barbara an
 d David Zalaznick Book Prize.\n\nHis scholarship focuses on the Rev\n\nht
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