Gordon S. Wood

The acclaimed historian, who died at the age of 92 this week, spent decades at the center of a debate about the founding of the United States.

Inside the profession, the battle over the 1619 Project continues.

Gordon Wood chronicled America’s rambunctious democratic culture. It’s giving way to a new deference to authority.

A historian thinks about how interpretations of the American Revolution’s causes have changed — and stayed the same — over the course of his career.

1619 Project reignited debate over slavery’s origins, exposing tensions between continuity vs change in U.S. history and competing “origin stories.”

Like the 1619 Project, two new books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.

A new way to think about the American Revolution.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

The United States didn't begin in 1619.

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.

The left is turning its back on the Revolution. Here's why that's a mistake.

A response to Wood's most recent piece in The Weekly Standard.

Alongside the Enlightenment reason we associate with the founding there were mystics, occultists, and conspiracy theorists.

Many founders died in despair about the American experiment.

Since the founding generation, there has been a rational consistent fear that the office of president is powerful to be constrained by democratic institutions.

How do we celebrate America's 250th anniversary as ICE and the Border Patrol threaten and abuse ordinary Americans?

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.