Gordon S. Wood
Gordon Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown. A collection of his essays, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, was published in March. (May 2008)
From the Review
May 1, 2008: Praying with the Founders
Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America...and What's Happened Since by Stephen Mansfield
So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle over Church and State by Forrest Church
November 8, 2007: What America Started
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788–1800 by Jay Winik
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
October 11, 2007: 'Illusions' of the Founders (letter)
June 28, 2007: Reading the Founders' Minds
Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution by Lawrence Goldstone
American Taxation, American Slavery by Robin L. Einhorn
November 30, 2006: Without Him, No Bill of Rights
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski
June 8, 2006: American Religion: The Great Retreat
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Meacham
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes
May 11, 2006: 'Righteous Anger' (letter)
April 6, 2006: Apologies to the Iroquois
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor
February 23, 2006: How Democratic Is the Constitution
America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders' Constitution by Calvin H. Johnson
July 14, 2005: Founders & Keepers
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
John Adams: Party of One by James Grant
John Jay: Founding Father by Walter Stahr
April 28, 2005: The Making of a Disaster
Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775–1783 by Stanley Weintraub
November 18, 2004: What Slavery Was Really Like
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation by Rhys Isaac
June 10, 2004: The Shopper's Revolution
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence by T.H. Breen
March 11, 2004: The Hidden France
George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century by Robert Darnton
December 4, 2003: Uncle Ben
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
September 25, 2003: Only in America
The Road to Home: My Life and Times by Vartan Gregorian
June 12, 2003: Debt and Democracy
Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence by Bruce H. Mann
A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy by James Macdonald
February 13, 2003: Creating the Revolution
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn
Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunites for Study by Bernard Bailyn
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction by Bernard Bailyn
The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century by Bernard Bailyn
Pamphlets of the American Revolution edited by Bernard Bailyn and Jane N. Garrett
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn, with Barbara DeWolfe
September 26, 2002: Wise Men
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan
May 9, 2002: Rambunctious American Democracy
How Democratic Is the American Constitution? by Robert A. Dahl
On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding by Michael Novak
James Madison by Garry Wills
June 21, 2001: In the American Grain
John Adams David McCullough
May 17, 2001: Tocqueville's Lesson
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop
March 29, 2001: The Greatest Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Joseph J. Ellis
The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire Francis Jennings
Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government Catherine Allgor
February 22, 2001: All in the Family
An American Family: The Kennans—The First Three Generations by George F. Kennan
October 19, 2000: Machiavellian Moments (letter)
June 29, 2000: Early American Get-Up-and-Go
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby
April 13, 2000: An Affair of Honor
Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser
Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government by Karl-Friedrich Walling
A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Arnold A. Rogow
Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America by Thomas Fleming
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character by Roger G. Kennedy
Scandalmonger by William Safire
October 7, 1999: The American Love Boat
Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image by Andrew Burstein
April 9, 1998: The Bloodiest War
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore
November 20, 1997: Doing the Continental
The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 by Lester D. Langley
August 14, 1997: Dusting Off the Declaration
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier
June 12, 1997: The Sally Hemings Case (letter)
February 20, 1997: Liberty's Wild Man
The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O'Brien
August 8, 1996: The Would-Be Gentleman
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
June 6, 1996: Not So Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies by Robert Middlekauff
The Devious Dr. Franklin, Colonial Agent: Benjamin Franklin's Years in London by David T. Morgan
May 23, 1996: An Exchange on James Madison
April 4, 1996: 'The Writingest Explorers'
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
October 19, 1995: The Founding Realist
If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason by Richard K. Matthews
June 8, 1995: Disturbing the Peace
Tom Paine: A Political Life by John Keane
Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom by Jack Fruchtman Jr.
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings edited by Eric Foner
December 1, 1994: Not a Liberal (letter)
October 20, 1994: The Wandering Jewish Prophet in New York
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America by Paul E. Johnson, by Sean Wilentz
June 9, 1994: Inventing American Capitalism
The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 by Christopher Clark
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land: The Plunder of Early America by Daniel M. Friedenberg
The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism by Allan Kulikoff
From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750–1850 by Winifred Barr Rothenberg
The Origins of American Capitalism: Selected Essays by James A. Henretta
May 13, 1993: Jefferson at Home
Jeffersonian Legacies edited by Peter S. Onuf
June 27, 1991: Novel History
Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations) by Simon Schama
September 27, 1990: Americans and Revolutionaries
Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations by David Brion Davis
November 9, 1989: Struggle Over the Puritans
The Puritan Ordeal by Andrew Delbanco
To Live Ancient Lives: The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism by Theodore Dwight Bozeman
Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England by David D. Hall
April 14, 1988: Among the Straussians (letter)
February 18, 1988: The Fundamentalists and the Constitution
The American Founding: Politics, Statesmanship, and the Constitution edited by Ralph A. Rossum, edited by Gary L. McDowell
The Complete Anti-Federalist edited by Herbert J. Storing
"The Constitutional Order, 1787–1987" edited by Irving Kristol, edited by Nathan Glazer
Constitutionalism and Rights edited by Gary C. Bryner, edited by Noel B. Reynolds
The Founders' Constitution edited by Philip B. Kurland, edited by Ralph Lerner
The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution edited by Leonard W. Levy, edited by Dennis J. Mahoney
The Moral Foundations of the American Republic edited by Robert H. Horwitz
Saving the Revolution: "The Federalist Papers" and The American Founding edited by Charles R. Kesler
Taking the Constitution Seriously by Walter Berns
The Thinking Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the New Republic by Ralph Lerner
February 28, 1985: Hellfire Politics
The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism by John Patrick Diggins
October 11, 1984: Politics Without Party
Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789–1829 by Ralph Ketcham
April 12, 1984: Apple Pie (letter)
March 29, 1984: History Lessons
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
February 2, 1984: The Revenge of Aaron Burr
Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr edited by Mary-Jo Kline, with Joanne Wood Ryan
February 3, 1983: This Land Is Our Land
The Fall of the First British Empire: Origins of the War of American Independence by Robert W. Tucker, by David C. Hendrickson
A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 by Edward Countryman
Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800 by Jay Fliegelman
December 16, 1982: Writing History: An Exchange
August 12, 1982: Star-Spangled History
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 Woodward, general editor.) (Volume II of the Oxford History of the United States, C. Vann, by Robert Middlekauff
February 18, 1982: Looking for Heroes
The Vineyard of Liberty Volume One of "The American Experiment" by James MacGregor Burns
August 13, 1981: The Disappointments of Jefferson
The Sage of Monticello Volume Six of "Jefferson and His Time" by Dumas Malone
April 2, 1981: Heroics
Explaining America: The Federalist by Garry Wills
Books by Gordon S. Wood
The American Revolution: A History (2002)
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1998)
The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992)
The Making of the Constitution (1987)
Revolution and the Political Integration of the Enslaved and Disenfranchised (1974)
The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820 (1971)
Representation in the American Revolution (1969)