Dr. Gordon Wood
lva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University.
Recipient in 1970 of the Bancroft Prize; in 1993 of the Pulitzer Prize for History; in 2010 of the National Humanities Medal.
e-mail: gordon_wood@brown.edu
Some recent publications
- Wood, G. (2017).
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Penguin.
- Wood, G. (2012).
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States. Penguin.
- Wood, G. (2006).
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different. Penguin.
Texts to download
- Wood, G. (2009).
“The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History”. Historically Speaking, Vol. X, No. 1, pp. 2-6.
- Wood, G. (2007).
“The Localization of Authority in the 17th-Century English Colonies”. Historically Speaking, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 2-5.
- Wood, G. (1999).
“The Origins of American Democracy, or How the People Became Judges in Their Own Causes”. Cleveland State Law Review, Vol. 47, pp. 309-322.
- Wood, G. (1992).
“The Greatness of George Washington”. The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 189-207.
- Wood, G. (1966).
“Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution”. The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 3-32.