Stonington — The Stonington Historical Society, with the support of the Connecticut Humanities Quick Grant Program, will present a program at 6 p.m. on Aug. 13 by Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, who will discuss slavery and the War of 1812.

The program will be presented on the 201st anniversary of the Battle of Stonington and will explore “themes of race and slavery in the North; the tangled web of international and domestic relationships; and the economics of slavery and the War of 1812,” according to the historical society.

The program, which is free and open to the public, will take place at the La Grua Center in the borough.

Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation professor of history at the University of Virginia with a specialty in early American Studies. In 1996, his book titled “William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic” won the Pulitzer Prize for history. His book “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832” won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2014.