Alan Pell Crawford’s most recent book, This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America’s Revolutionary War in the South, is the winner of the American Battlefield Trust’s 2025 book award. His writing has appeared in American History, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has been a resident scholar at the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, and lives in Richmond, Virginia. He writes the “Political Asylum” column for The American Conservative.