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Gordon Wood

“We are glad we are not them”: How Canadians are thinking about the potential collapse of American democracy

John Fea   |  December 12, 2023

Over at Literary Review of Canada, Pulitzer prize-winning writer and McGill University professor David Marks Shribman reviews Rob Goodman’s Not Here: Why American Democracy is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself. Here is a taste: It once was sufficient […]

U.S. historians who American conservatives like

John Fea   |  August 28, 2022

Recently journalist Matt Yglesias asked his more than 530,000 Twitter followers this question: At the time I am writing this, his post has 384 comments. After eliminating non-historians and purveyors of the past who think they are historians, I made […]

The 1619 Project and the latest battle over teaching history

John Fea   |  November 9, 2021

Jake Silverstein, the editor of The New York Times Magazine, has published a helpful 8100-world piece on the origins of the 1619 Project and how it has triggered the latest debate over the teaching of American history in schools. Here […]

Gordon Wood and Woody Holton will debate the meaning of the American Revolution

John Fea   |  October 22, 2021

Learn how to watch Saturday’s debate here. It is sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Here’s more: Gordon Wood and Woody Holton are both distinguished scholars of the American Revolution. But they approach the founding very differently, as you can […]

Albert Mohler interviews Gordon Wood

John Fea   |  October 8, 2021

The 87-year-old American historian has a new book out. It is titled Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution. Listen here. At about the 34:00 mark Mohler asks Wood about how he does history. Wood talks about the ahistorical […]

Practice virtue. Get vaccinated

John Fea   |  August 1, 2021

On Wednesday I wrote a piece at Current titled, “Love Your Neighbor. Get Vaccinated.” I discussed the resistance to vaccines in the evangelical community and focused a significant portion of the piece on talk radio show host and author Eric […]