Gordon S. Wood Audio & Video

Historian Gordon Wood talked about his life, career, and his books on the American Revolution, the making of the Constitution, and the importance of historical study. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.

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

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

From "the most respected among all scholars of the colonial and Revolutionary periods" ("Washington Post World") comes a marvelous group portrait of the Founding Fathers, rich with insight into what shaped these particular men.

Historian Gordon Wood discussed his book, Friends Divided, about the relationship and differing political views of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

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

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.

In The Purpose of the Past, historian Gordon S. Wood examines this sea change in his field through consideration of some of its most important historians and their works.

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....