gordon s wood the american revolution a history

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He reviews in the New York Review of Books. . In 2015 he edited two volumes, The American Revolution:Writings from the Pamphlet Debate: 1764-1776, for the LIbrary of America. In 2015 he received the Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School. Kennedy Medal from the Massachusetts Historical Society. Schlesinger Jr, Award from the Society of American HIstorians, In 2012 he received an award from the John Carter Brown Library and the John. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Obama and the Churchill Bell by Colonial Williamsburg, In 2011 he also received the Arthur M. His volume in the Oxford History of the United States, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (2009) was given the Association of American Publishers Award for History and Biography in 2009, the American History Book Prize by the New York Historical Society for 2010, and the Society of the Cincinnati History Prize in 2010. The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History was published in 2008. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different was published in 2006. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004) was awarded the Julia Ward Howe Prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. He is the author of the Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969), which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. He taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Brown in 1969.

degree from Tufts University and his Ph.D.

Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University.

Gordon s wood the american revolution a history