Freeman Professorship

The spring 2010 Douglas Southall Freeman Visiting Professor is William Doyle of the University of Bristol, England. One of the world’s leading authorities on the French Revolution, Doyle is the author of The Oxford History of the French Revolution and, most recently, Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution. He will be teaching a course on Napoleon.

The Freeman Visiting Professor for fall 2010 will be Alan Taylor of the University of California at Davis. 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.