By now many of you have probably read a review of Alan Taylor‘s new synthesis of the American Revolution. (We will be featuring Taylor in an upcoming edition of the Author’s Corner. Stay tuned). Writing in The New York Times,...
Over at the website of The Library of America (the real LOA, not the Randall Stephens version), historian Gordon Wood discusses the life of John Adams. Wood is the editor of John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826. In this...
Michael David Cohen, editor of the Correspondence of James K. Polk and Research Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, checks in with another post from the floor of the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians. For...
I am not sure if Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is still running for president. Since he is not getting much media attention and has become a featured performer (along with Rick Santorum, George Pataki, and Lindsey Graham) on the GOP […]
Scott Porch of the Los Angeles Review of Books recently interviewed historian Gordon Wood about his new Library of America edited collection, The American Revolution: Writings From the Pamphlet Debate, 1764-1776.Porch asked Wood how he first learned that his name was...
Historian Gordon Wood has edited one of the most recent volumes of the Library of America. The two-volume boxed set is entitled The American Revolution: Writings From the Pamphlet Debate, 1764-1776.Over at the blog of the Library of America, Wood discusses...
As some of you may recall, I wrote a post last week on Gordon Wood’s essay in The Weekly Standard. I want to thank all the historians who e-mailed privately with encouraging words. I also realize that my post was...
History-related social media is blowing-up over Gordon Wood’s essay on historian Bernard Bailyn in the recent issue of the conservative Weekly Standard. The fact that Wood, one of the most decorated American historians of the past century, is the center of attention today...
Gordon Wood of Brown is the author of the The Creation of the American Republic. Woody Holton of the University of South Carolina is the author of Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution. Frankly, I never thought these...
“History is much too complicated to be used effectively by judges.” Also some good stuff on the “separation of church and state.” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6o6sm5SJuE]
A few days ago we called your attention to Michael Hattem’s post, “Where Have You Gone, Gordon Wood?” Hattem’s post. It has generated much discussion at The Junto blog and on Twitter. If you want to follow the ongoing conversation,...
Gordon Wood will be eighty-years old in November and he still commands attention in academic circles. The simple invocation of his name can get the members of the guild pretty fired up. If you don’t believe me I encourage you […]
There are certain artists and public intellectuals whose art appeals to both liberals and conservatives. Historian Gordon Wood once said that his book The Creation of the American Republic appealed to conservatives who liked the idea that the founding fathers...
Gordon Wood will be speaking on this topic tomorrow night at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass. J.L. Bell offers his own brief take on the question at hand: The society’s announcement asks, “Was George Santayana correct when he […]
One Pulitzer Prize winner praises another Pulitzer Prize winner: Gordon S. Wood is more than an American historian. He is almost an American institution. Of all the many teachers and writers of history in this Republic, few are held in...
Over at The Wall Street Journal, James Cesar reviews Gordon Wood’s latest, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States. Here is a taste: The historian has the advantage of hindsight. He can see the development...
The Library of America has published a two-volume edition of some of the papers of John Adams, edited by Gordon Wood. Here is a snippet from an interview with Wood from “Reader’s Almanac,” the blog of the Library of America:...
They include: Bernard Bailyn Jacques Barzun Wendell Berry Joyce Carol Oates Gordon Wood I wonder if this is the first time that a student (Wood) and his mentor (Bailyn) received the medal in the same year. Of course Wood and...
The conversation continues. Over at the Cliopatria award-winning U.S. Intellectual History, David Sehat weighs in on the Gordon Wood review of Jill Lepore’s The Whites of Their Eyes. After reading Sehat’s analysis, I am now closer than I have ever...
I am a fan of Gordon Wood’s work. (Who else would spend three hours live-blogging his recent appearance on Book-TV, prompting one reader of this blog to describe my efforts as “history dorkitude”). After I read The Creation of the...
