Gordon S. Wood

Gordon S. Wood ( born November 27, 1933, Concord, Massachusetts) is an American historian. He deals with the history of the American Revolution.

Life

Wood graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1955 and interrupted by military service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force from 1955 to 1958 in Japan, at Harvard University, where in 1959 his master's degree (AM) acquired and received his doctorate in 1964 with Bernard Bailyn. He taught at Harvard University ( Teaching Fellow 1960-1964, Assistant Professor 1966/67 ), from 1964 to 1966 as a professor at the College of William & Mary ( Fellow of the Institute of Early American History and Culture ) at the University of Michigan (Associate Professor 1967-1969 ) and from 1969 as associate professor and from 1971 as a professor at Brown University. He was there from 1983 to 1986 Executive Board of the History Department, University Professor from 1990 and from 1997 Ava O. Way University Professor. He is now Professor Emeritus there.

He was a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge ( Pitt Professor 1982/83 ), 1991 at All Souls College, Oxford and at the School of Law at Northwestern University.

Wood enjoys in the United States as a historian of the American Revolution high reputation and also found its way into Popular culture - so he is quoted, for example, in the film Good Will Hunting in an academic debate between students. In contrast to earlier historians, he did not focus on the period before 1776 or the presidency of Andrew Jackson ( 1829 ), but in between the time. Based on thorough studies of the sources he put his views in 1969 in his book Creation of the American Republic dar. According to Wood at that time was a completely new form of politics and government with completely new ideas of representation, protection of civil rights and separation of powers. It was Wood's not the work of a narrow elite, but wider participation and discussion, documented in pamphlets and newspapers. Besides, she was created from the beginning as open to change. While his first book focused on the period from 1776 to 1787 he continued the investigation in Radicalism of the American Revolution to about 1825 and emphasized in addition to the political aspects of the revolutionary to Wood changes in social relations with each other during this time.

He writes for the New York Review of Books and The Republic.

In 2011 he received the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award. For his book Creation of the American Republic in 1970 he was awarded the Bancroft Prize ( as well as a nomination for the National Book Award and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970 ) and for Radicalism of the American Revolution in 1993 the Pulitzer Prize for history. In 2010 he received the National Humanities Medal. 1980/81 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He holds honorary doctorates from La Trobe University in Melbourne ( 2001).

Writings

Books:

  • The Creation of the American Republic, University of North Carolina Press 1969
  • Publisher: Representation in the American Revolution, University of Virginia Press, 1969
  • Publisher: The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820, New York: George Braziller in 1971, 2nd edition, Boston: Northeastern University Press 1990
  • Publisher: The Confederation and the Constitution, Boston: Little, Brown 1973.
  • Revolution and the Political Integration of the Enslaved and Disenfranchised, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, DC In 1974.
  • With JR Pole: Social Radicalism and the Idea of Equality in the American Revolution, University of St. Thomas, Houston 1976
  • Other: The Great Republic, Boston: Little, Brown 1977, 4th edition DC Heath 1992
  • The Making of the Constitution, Waco: Baylor University Press, 1987
  • Publisher: Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820, Northeastern University Press 1990.
  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Alfred A. Knopf 1992.
  • Published by Louise G. Wood: Russian - American Dialogue on the American Revolution, University of Missouri Press, 1995
  • Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
  • Published by Anthony Molho: Imagined Histories: American Historians Artist the Past, Princeton University Press, 1998.
  • Monarchism and Republicanism in the Early United States, La Trobe University, Melbourne 2000
  • The American Revolution: A History, New York: Modern Library, 2001.
  • The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Penguin Press, 2004.
  • Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, Penguin Press, 2006.
  • The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, Penguin Press, 2008.
  • Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, Oxford University Press, 2010 (in the series Oxford History of the United States ).
  • The Idea of ​​America. Reflections on the Birth of the United States. Penguin Press 2011 ( collection of essays )

Some essays:

  • Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution, The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 23, No. 1, 1966, pp. 3-32, reprinted in Wood The Idea of ​​America
  • Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth century, The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 39, No. 3, 1982
  • Interest and disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution, in Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, Edward C. Carter II (Editor) Beyond Confederation. The Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity, University of North Carolina Press 1987, 69-109 (also in Wood The Idea of ​​America )
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