Gordon Wood and the Historians Who Told the Real Story of the Founders
The sudden death of the historian Gordon Wood, just weeks before the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one more mark of the closure of a golden age of the historiography of the revolutionary era. It’s an occasion to reflect on the uniqueness, indeed the idiosyncrasy, of the emergence of...
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Home – Founding Fathers & American History – Gordon Wood and the Historians Who Told the Real Story of the Founders opinion Gordon Wood and the Historians Who Told the Real Story of the Founders Michael Barone • June 21, 2026 Print President Barack Obama presents a National Humanities Medal to author and historian Gordon Wood during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images) (function(){var t=document.querySelector(".wp-block-kadence-dynamichtml"),s=document.currentScript.previousElementSibling;if(t&&s){if("prepend"==="before_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t);else if("prepend"==="after_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t.nextSibling);else if("prepend"==="prepend"||"prepend"==="inside_first_child")t.insertBefore(s,t.firstChild);else…
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