Thursday, September 18, 6:30 pm

Join UVA Professor Emeritus Alan Taylor as he discusses Joseph Plumb Martin's remarkable and rare memoir, first published in 1830—one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of the American Revolution. Martin, from Milford CT, enlisted at just 15 and served nearly the entire war, witnessing Valley Forge, Yorktown, and countless hardships with wit and unflinching honesty. Taylor brings this irreplaceable soldier's story to life, revealing the human drama behind America's founding.

Alan Taylor was the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. A distinguished scholar of early American history, he has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, as well as the Bancroft Prize and the National Book Award. His work focuses on the colonial period, the American Revolution, and the early American Republic. Professor Taylor is the author of 11 books on these subjects and was an expert historian in the development of the new Ken Burns documentary series, American Revolution.
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