Gordon S. Wood

The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history....

Named a New York Times Notable Book, Empire of Liberty offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era in American history....

The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world....

This classic work explains the evolution of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution. In so doing, it greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system....

Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin....

A series of brilliantly illuminating studies of the men who came to be known as the founding fathers....

Arguably, no relationship in this country's history carries as much freight as that of John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia....

In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood depicts not just a break with England, but the rejection of an entire way of life....

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution....

History is to society what memory is to the individual. Historian Gordon Wood examines the sea change in his field through consideration of some of its most important historians and their works....