‘William Cooper’s Town’ Author

Speaks At Hartwick At 8 p.m.

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.”