Pulitzer Prize-winning historians and biographers who appeared at a 2016 Pioneer Institute forum discuss American history during the transformational age of President Andrew Jackson.
David & Jeanne Heidler are co-authors or editors of 12 books, including Old Hickory’s War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire and Henry Clay: The Essential American. They are currently working on a book about the political rise of Andrew Jackson. Daniel Walker Howe won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. Alan Taylor authored seven books, including The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia: 1772-1832, which was a National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist in 2013 and won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in History. His book William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic won the 1996 Bancroft, Beveridge, and Pulitzer prizes. Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation professor of history at the University of Virginia and an expert on slavery. Also featured: Pioneer Institute’s Distinguished Senior Fellow in Education and former Massachusetts Senate President Tom Birmingham, who co-authored the commonwealth’s landmark 1993 Education Reform Act. He is a Rhodes Scholar.
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