Author: William Taylor

William Harrison Taylor earned his Ph.D. from Mississippi State University and is currently an associate professor of history at Alabama State University. Primarily his research concentrates on the religious history of the Anglo-American world during the long eighteenth-century. He is the author of Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758-1801 (University of Alabama Press, 2017) as well as the co-editor of Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora (Lehigh University Press, 2016). Currently, he is researching the contours and implications of anti-Catholic sentiment during the American Revolution.

Culture Posted on March 13, 2018March 12, 2018

Creating American Nationalists: Presbyterians and the War for Independence

There was no turning back after the morning of April nineteenth.[1] When the militiamen under Captain John Parker defended themselves against the British regulars at Lexington, they signaled a transition in the imperial crisis. What was still primarily a war of words before the sun broke the horizon that morning in 1775 had intensified into […]

by William Taylor