Monarchism and republicanism in the early United States

By Gordon S. Wood

The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History

By Gordon S. Wood

The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History

By Gordon S. Wood

Friends Divided

By Gordon S. Wood

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual bi...

The Idea of America

By Gordon S. Wood

The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as a...

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

By Gordon S. Wood

“I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .” —The New York Sun“Exceptionally rich...

The Idea of America

By Gordon S. Wood

The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as a...

Revolutionary Characters

By Gordon S. Wood

In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men gr...

Revolutionary Characters

By Gordon S. Wood

In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, ?What made these men gr...