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Gordon S. Wood

1933—2026

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Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood
2021
Book
The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate, 1764-1776 (2 vols.)
Gordon S. Wood
2015
A painting of the American Founders at the Constitutional Convention.

Inventing American Constitutionalism

On "Power and Liberty," a condensed version of Gordon Wood's entire sweep of scholarship about constitutionalism.
by Gordon S. Wood, Brian A. Smith via Law & Liberty on March 10, 2023
Side profile of Aaron Burr.
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Aaron Burr: Most Hated Man in American History

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.
by Gordon S. Wood, Matthew Wills, Herbert Sloan via JSTOR Daily on January 14, 2016
Common Sense pamphlet

The Pamphleteers

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Gordon Wood talks about pamphlets, changes in the media environment, and the current state of historical writing.
by Gordon S. Wood, Scott Porch via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 24, 2015
Shakers stand in rows dancing.

A Different Story of What Shaped America

In the decades following the American Revolution, it was American Protestantism that was most important in shaping the development of American nationalism.
by Gordon S. Wood via New York Review of Books
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on July 9, 2015
Painting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin while writing the Declaration of Independence.

How the Complete Meaning of July Fourth Is Slipping Away

John Adams would not be happy to see what Independence Day has become.
by Gordon S. Wood via The New Republic
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on July 4, 2011

Creating the Revolution

Reflections on the creativity of the founders — and on a few of the historians who have set out to understand them.
by Gordon S. Wood via New York Review of Books
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on December 13, 2003
Trumbull painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Dusting Off the Declaration

The Declaration of Independence seems to Pauline Maier to be "peculiarly unsuited" for the role that it eventually came to play in America.
by Gordon S. Wood via New York Review of Books
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on August 14, 1997
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