‘William Cooper’s Town’ Author
Speaks At Hartwick At 8 p.m.
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ONEONTA – Tonight Hartwick College will be hosting Alan Taylor, who won his first Pulitzer for his 1995 “William Cooper’s Town,” which defined early Cooperstown history as a struggle between Federalists like Cooper, who favored centralizing of authority in a small group, and Democratic Republicans like Jedediah Peck, who saw supremacy in the people at large.
The lecture, free and open to the public, is planned for 8 p.m. in the Shineman Chapel. It is titled, “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and the War in the Early Republic.”
Taylor, now Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair for the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, won a second Pulitzer last year for “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832.”