What 15 Leading Historians Are Working on Now

Alan Taylor

University of California at Davis

I have begun to write a history of colonial America, a topic that extends over nearly 300 years and over most of the North American continent. It may be a fool's errand, given the extraordinary explosion of recent scholarship whose growing diversity of methods and topics complicates any search for synthesis. Common in all fields of history, this proliferation of particular histories -- studies of localities, ethnicities, racial constructions, class