Podcast appearances and mentions of Gordon Wood

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In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest compliance professionals, business executives, or anyone curious about the subject. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or any other topic that might interest Tom. Today, we conclude a review of America's birthday in 2026. Last week, we considered 5 books on the Declaration of Independence, and this week, we will review 4 books on July 4th. The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier Resources: Best Books on the 4th of July, an interview with Gordon Wood on fivebooks.com The Sunday Book Review was recently honored as one of the Top 100 Book Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As America nears its 250th birthday, our Global Head of Fixed Income Andrew Sheets looks back at the early republic as a volatile frontier market, and what its path from credit risks to durable institutions can teach investors today.Read more insights from Morgan Stanley.----- Transcript ----- Andrew Sheets: Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Andrew Sheets, Global Head of Fixed Income Research at Morgan Stanley.Today, markets are closed for the observance of 4th of July. But as America approaches its 250th anniversary, we take a look back to look forward at early America as a frontier market.It's Friday, July 3rd at 9am in Seattle.If you were a global investor at the end of the 18th century looking for a stable, low-risk home for your capital, it would have been entirely reasonable to avoid the newly minted United States of America. By the standards of modern finance, the young republic was not a developed market in waiting. It was a frontier economy: volatile, debt-burdened, institutionally fragile, resource-rich, politically combustible, and astonishingly unequal.Its currency had collapsed. Its public finances were suspect. Its citizens resisted taxation, and its growth prospects were extraordinary. In 1810, 70 percent of the country was under the age of 25.That is one of the revelations of Gordon Wood's Empire of Liberty, which focuses on the early days of the new country from 1789 to 1815.Wood's America is not the marble republic of statues and myth. It is speculative, messy, and full of motion. The United States succeeded not by escaping the dysfunctions that we associate with emerging or frontier markets, but by turning them into sources of strength.Start with capital. Early America needed it desperately. Roads, canals, land purchases, and government all required credit, and there was never enough of it. The country was rich in land and poor in liquidity, a classic emerging market mismatch.What the young country couldn't borrow or invent, it misappropriated, lifting intellectual property from its former masters in Britain. What Alexander Hamilton understood was the importance of confidence given this challenge; that debts would be honored, contracts enforced, and taxes, however unpopular, collected.His financial program was an attempt to solve the emerging market problem before the phrase existed. How to persuade investors that a new state, born in revolution and nearly bankrupted by war, could be trusted. To Hamilton, public credit was the foundation of independence.To many Jeffersonians, however, this system looked like an attempt to smuggle a British financial order back into the country that had just fought to expel it.The early republic's debates over debt, banks, speculation, and taxation sound contemporary because the underlying question is perennial in frontier markets: Can a society embrace credit and foreign capital without being captured by it?The U.S. was not starting from zero. It inherited legal traditions, habits of self-government, and a culture of contract and property. Those foundations gave confidence that disputes could be adjudicated, debts pursued, and rules would not be arbitrary.Early America was risky, but it was not lawless. And still, it did not go smoothly. There was no Federal Reserve, FDIC, or even a uniform national currency. Business was conducted with foreign coins, notes issued by private banks, IOUs, and blind optimism.Bank failures were common. In 1808, the Farmers Exchange Bank of Rhode Island issued over $600,000 of notes against less than $90 of gold in its vaults. You almost have to admire the audacity.Yet the same instability that made early America risky also made it unusually open. Land was the country's great asset class, a source of migration, ambition, speculation, and opportunity, at least for white settlers. It also produced bubbles, administrative strain, the expansion of slavery, and the violent dispossession of Native peoples.The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was a risky, leveraged acquisition of distressed real estate, doubling the scale of the American experiment before anyone had quite figured out how the original version was supposed to work. Wood is especially good on the familiar energy unleashed by this world.The engine of U.S. growth was not an aristocracy of polished grandees, but the "middling sort." Shopkeepers, artisans, tavern owners, mechanics, farmers, merchants, and speculators – many convinced that in America, birthright mattered less than hustle.Commentators of the time complained about the degraded press, political polarization, hostility to expertise, and the vulgarity of a society obsessed with getting ahead. None of this sounds especially distant.What saved America from the usual traps of frontier economies was not immaculate stability. It was adaptability. Its constitution was amended. Political power changed hands despite animosity.Bankruptcy laws allowed for failure. Competition was ferocious, and economic power was generally too diffuse to be easily monopolized. The early republic's genius lay less in solving its contradictions than in creating ways to fight over them without destroying the whole.That is a useful lesson for America at 250. We tend to look backwards for reassurance, imagining that the country once possessed a unity, prudence, and institutional solidity that we have since lost. Wood suggests something different, that the United States was turbulent from the start.Its legacy was contested, its finances distrusted, its politics venomous, its expansion intertwined with slavery and Native dispossession, and its future uncertain. Emerging markets become developed markets not because they stop having crises, but because they build credibility through them. They learn which institutions matter, which bargains endure, which debts must be paid, and which moral liabilities compound when deferred.America was not born orderly, rich, or secure. It was born in the mud, financed on fragile credit, driven by speculation, and sustained by an almost irrational confidence in the future.So, enjoy the fireworks – and let them be a reminder that national maturity is not the absence of volatility. It's the capacity to turn that volatility into renewal.A postscript: Gordon S. Wood died in early June of this year. As a professor, author, and one of the preeminent scholars of the American Revolution, he brought fresh insight and deep humanization to the country's founding. For anyone looking for a better understanding of America as it celebrates a big anniversary, we'd wholeheartedly recommend his workThank you, as always, for your time. If you find Thoughts on the Market useful, let us know by leaving a review wherever you listen and also tell a friend or colleague about us today.

Before his death at age 92, the Brown University Professor Gordon Wood, PhD '64, devoted his long career to making sure we remember the radicalism of the American Revolution. Often referred to as the “dean” of historians of the 18th-century United States, Wood argued that the country represented not only the most liberal and democratic regime in human history, but also a fundamental transformation of society and culture, one that continues to shape popular movements for freedom throughout the world. As the US approached its 250th anniversary, he spoke with Harvard Griffin GSAS about the creation of the American republic in one of the last interviews of his life.

The tributes to Gordon Wood have been pouring in, and as promised, we spend this episode with him and his peerless body of work.  Professor Steven Calabresi, Gordon's neighbor, friend, and colleague, joins us, and how appropriate that is, as Steve and Akhil produced a tribute weekend at Yale Law School that reviewed and celebrated his lifetime of work.  Now we remember the man, the teacher, and most of all, the towering scholar, as we review some of his most important ideas, his methods, and his inspiration for so many who have read, and who will read, the greatest books ever written about the American founding period.  A giant has been lost, but his memory will be a blessing for many generations to come.  CLE credit is available for lawyers and judges from podcast.njsba.com.

Enjoy this entire 49-minute bonus episode! To listen to future bonus content and get early access to ad-free episodes, become a subscriber today. History As It Happens Premium costs $5 per month. **** On June 7, 2026, the historian Gordon Wood died at 92. He was one of the greatest scholars of the American Revolution and early Republic, who did "as much as anyone to deepen understanding and change perceptions of the forces and events that led to the birth of the United States," according to The New York Times. In this episode, three historians talk about why Gordon Wood's scholarship was so influential, and why his vision of the American founding remains valuable as the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence approaches. Daniel Gullotta teaches American religious history, with a focus on Christianity in Early America, at Ohio State University. Michael Hattem is a historian of the American Revolution specializing in historical memory, political culture, and intellectual history at Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Craig Bruce Smith is a professor of history at National Defense University in Norfolk, Va. (The views he expresses here are his and his alone.)

Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize winning historian Gordon Wood delivered a talk titled "The Revolutionary Roots of the Civil War." Professor Wood discussed the Founders views on slavery and argued that the Civil War was inevitable. The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation hosted this event Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Max and 99 are here for another round of Omnibus. They hit headlines on Jared Kushner’s foreign entanglements, the screwworm outbreak threatening the beef supply, a tribute to revolutionary historian Gordon Wood, and a 77-year-old who lost his life savings to a gold coin scam. Then they tackle listener emails on stopping Musk’s grift and Bernie’s proposed AI wealth fund. They rank their Top 5 people who owe them a personal apology. Enjoy! Chapters Intro 00:00:20 Headlines: 00:29:13 Emails: 01:11:55 Top 5: 01:32:14 Memberships: 01:42:45 Outro: 01:43:09 Resources The Hill: Trump officials play Biden blame game as screwworm spreads Politico: A flesh-eating pest threatens Trump’s beef price hopes Mother Jones: They Went to Jared Business Insider: A 77-year-old lost $390,000 of his retirement savings after picking up a scam call. Now he wants to help others. WSWS: A Tribute to Gordon S. Wood, Historian of the American Revolution New York Times: Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’ Business Insider: Bari Weiss was supposed to ‘restore trust’ in CBS News. It’s eroding, says CNN’s Brian Stelter. New York Times: Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It. Book Love Stephen Kinzer: The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War UNFTR Resources Episode: F*ck Milton Friedman. Video: SpaceX IPO: What They’re Not Telling Retail Investors. Episode: Dear Rebekkkah Mercer. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Bluesky, and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Become a member at unftr.com/memberships. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility.Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week's episode, which finds Steve over in Japan but still with a hoarse voice, ranges widely from exonerating John Yoo from being implicated in a major whiskey heist, to what the prodigious drinking habits of the Founding Fathers has to say about constitutional law today. Justice Neil Gorsuch reminds us that “John Adams took a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast every day. James Madison reportedly drank a pint of whiskey every day. Thomas Jefferson said he wasn't much of a user of alcohol—he only had three or four glasses of wine a night.” Ah, the great ones.Speaking of the Founders, we make a nod to the tragic passing of Gordon Wood, and naturally manage to get into an argument about history and historians.But the central topic of today is considering John's foray into grand strategy in his Civitas Outlook article this week on "America Doesn't Need to Fear a 'Thucydides Trap'," , and while Admiral Ackbar needed to fear a trap, John doesn't think so. But what was Chinese premier Xi trying to do in bringing up the subject in a public session at the recent summit with Trump? One doesn't imagine Trump being a reader of Thucydides, though one can easily see him liking the outcome of the Melian debate. In fact, maybe that's what he's up to with Iran? Who can tell. 

Hour Three of A&G features... The Iranian Ruse... China's population crisis is very real... The White House Epstein Freak-Out (Via NYT)... A little Gordon Wood. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Frank and David discuss the career of historian Gordon Wood. Gordon Wood in Good Will Hunting Last Drops Frank: Declaration of Independence exhibit at the Museum of the American Revolution David: Sam Adams Patriot Collection

Hour Three of A&G features... The Iranian Ruse... China's population crisis is very real... The White House Epstein Freak-Out (Via NYT)... A little Gordon Wood. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AP correspondent Jennifer King reports on the passing of prize winning historian Gordon Wood.

The United States is not a nation like other nations, and it never has been. In July  1776, thirteen separate states, home to three million people with no common  ancestry or identity, stretching along a narrow coastal strip between the Atlantic and the Appalachians, declared their independence as the United States. Could they form a common identity and survive? Today, with more than 350 million people drawn from all over the world, spanning the North American continent, we ask even more what holds us together? Gordon Wood, the premier historian of the American founding, author of The Creation of the American Republic, The Idea of America, Power and Liberty, Revolutionary Characters, and The Purpose of the Past, joins us to talk about this question, which he also addressed in his 2025 talk in accepting the Irving Kristol Award at the American Enterprise Insttitute. Gordon Wood was the guest on our first podcast in 2020; he came back for our 100 th episode in 2022; he returned in 2024 for our 200 th episode. Now he joins us on our 300 th episode, as we  prepare to mark the 250 th anniversary of American Independence, and to help us answer the eternal questions, What is an American? What holds us together?Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

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In this special American Revolution 250 episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts U-Ark Prof. Albert Cheng and Kelley Brown, Massachusetts state champion U.S. history and civics teacher, sit down with renowned Brown University historian Gordon Wood to explore the life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution. Drawing on his book, The Americanization […]

In this special American Revolution 250 episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts U-Ark Prof. Albert Cheng and Kelley Brown, Massachusetts state champion U.S. history and civics teacher, sit down with renowned Brown University historian Gordon Wood to explore the life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution. Drawing on his book, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Prof. Wood examines Franklin's journey from obscure beginnings in colonial Massachusetts to global fame as an entrepreneur, scientist, and statesman. He discusses Franklin's embrace of Enlightenment ideals, his rise in Philadelphia through printing, publishing and civic leadership, and his immense wealth, which fueled his image as America's quintessential self-made man. Prof. Wood also traces Franklin's evolution from loyal British subject and aspiring gentleman to revolutionary American patriot. In closing, he highlights Franklin's scientific genius, his pivotal diplomatic triumph in securing the 1778 French alliance, and enduring cultural symbolism as the embodiment of American ingenuity and statesmanship.

It is officially 2026, which means America is turning 250 this year. Our question on this semiquincentennial looks back to America's founding and the constitutional framework that gave birth to our nation. America is the only nation founded not on blood or soil, but on a creed. Established by the Declaration of Independence, this creed, […]

It is officially 2026, which means America is turning 250 this year. Our question on this semiquincentennial looks back to America's founding and the constitutional framework that gave birth to our nation. America is the only nation founded not on blood or soil, but on a creed. Established by the Declaration of Independence, this creed, now more than ever, should be viewed through Jefferson's words as a unifying force in our country as we continue to confront the challenges of a multicultural society. Both sides of the aisle have factions that seek to blame American democracy for our difficulties. Still, Professor Wood assures us that Americans are better positioned than any other people to mitigate these challenges because of our creedal identity. So what is the source of our strength? Is civic education the key to protecting our ideals? And how important are a free society and assimilation in preserving them?Gordon Wood is a renowned and highly awarded historian and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He is the author of the Creation of the American Republic which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, among many other written works. In 2011 he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Obama and the Churchill Bell by Colonial Williamsburg. He is largely regarded as a leading scholar of Early American history, known specifically for his masterful prose and transformative understanding of true radicalism of the American Revolution. The American Enterprise Institute most recently awarded him the Irving Kristol Award.Read the transcript here.Subscribe to our Substack here.

Now we know what you're thinking: if we have on as a special guest historian Richard Samuelson, one of the pre-eminent experts on John Adams, you'd think we find out what Adams thought about the Clean Air Act, but no! Instead, the show reaches its zenith with Samuelson drawing our attention to some of Adams's handwritten marginalia that demonstrates why Adams would have completely understood the Sweeney Sensation. Richard joined us for our intermittent series between now and next July 4 about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and he helpfully arbitrated the debate we had last week about the probity of Gordon Wood's treatment of the American creed. (Readers should also not miss Samuelson's article "John Adams Versus Edmund Burke," which helps clarify the extent to which Adams should be thought of (as Russell Kirk did) as "America's first conservative."We also went through a couple of current headlines about the latest frontiers in lawfare, and the aftermath of the shooting of two national guard troops in Washington.For those who like to take in the video, you can find the YouTube right here (and consider subscribing).

Another week of last minute schedule changes, flight delays, lost iPads, misplaced laptops, and other mishaps delayed the recording of this week's episode, but finally on Saturday night we were able to sit down for an especially fast-paced episode to close out the week that comes with competing Star Trek metaphors, reflectioning and debating briefly about which was the weirdest news story of the week—the latest Epstein file revelations, MTG departing the House, the Mamdani-Trump Oval Office Summit—the greatest clash since Yalta, or the most bizarre meeting of Capitalist and Communist since Franklin Roosevelt dined alone—before we finally settle down to out main topic of the week: the launch of what will be a regular feature here on the 3WHH between now and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence next July 4.For this first installment, we ponder the strange case of historian Gordon Wood, considered the pre-eminent historian of the American Founding, who was in the news last week for a speech he delivered in Washington DC for the American Enterprise Institute. Steve was present to hear the speech; John took in the published version, and Lucretia let out a mighty harumph. Wood's main thesis at the beginning of his illustrious career was that the American Founding should be understood as part of the "civic republican" tradition, rather than a Lockean-Jeffersonian natural rights revolution. It made him the left's favorite historian for a time, a point Steve made in a critical article about Wood 20 years ago, "The Liberal Republicanism of Gordon Wood." Naturally—do I really need to say "naturally"? you know what's coming next—John stepped up to defend Wood's civic republican thesis. Lucretia thought she could sit this one out, but ChatGPT provided us with a debate between Lucretia and Wood, with "Wood" getting off some good zingers like "Lucretia, the Founding wasn't a live-action performance of Natural Right: The Musical,"  and "Of course they were serious—serious about the collapse of deference, the emergence of democratic culture, and all the other things that give Straussians spontaneous nosebleeds." Lucretia responded in kind: "You make it sound like Samuel Adams was out there organizing consciousness-raising workshops. “Hi, I'm Sam, and I'm here to talk about my feelings on monarchy…”The episode is slightly shorter than normal as Steve had to rush off to the final performance of Steve Hackett's North American tour in Portland, Oregon, and the final performance of keyboardist Roger King, and because the philistine and cretinous Lucretia and John attempted to mock the gods of prog rock, the exit music this week is an excerpt from Hackett's most famous guitar lick. IYKYK.

Born Equal is being read - by academics, pundits, historians, and citizens.  Reaction has begun to pour in, and discussion has begun.  In this episode, we bring you some of the very best flavor of such discussion - an academic symposium held at Penn Carey Law School on the book.  Professors Kate Shaw and Kermit Roosevelt each read the work with great care and deliver extensive remarks on the book, pointing out themes and insights - and raising questions.  Oh, so many questions.  Professor Amar then responds in the moment, and students in the audience pose their own queries.  The constitutional conversation continues, and is never complete.  But this one in particular will go on, as there were so many important questions raised that they could never be answered in this short interval.  But you will thrill to deep engagement and fascinating perspectives from this all-star panel of great thinkers.  Meanwhile, we also have a bonus for you: the great historian Gordon Wood has weighed in having read the book, and his extended remarks can be found at akhilamar.com/podcast.  CLE credit is available for lawyers and judges from podcast.njsba.com.

John Yoo is over in Korea this week, where he says he is "lecturing," but we know he's really just arranging to smuggle back a ton of tariff-free Korean barbecue sauce. So in his absence Steve and Lucretia attempted to hold alive live taping streamed on YouTube (in Steve's case accompanied by Bad Rock rye whisky that "Pizza Bob" supplied directly to him this week), but we missed a technical step in the preparation process and couldn't get it to work. But we have posted the video anyway on our all-new 3WHH Podcast YouTube Channel. And we'll aim to get the livestream option working my next week. In anything case, we did have a small audience join us live on the Zoom webinar, and we fielded a number of listener and reader questions, culminating in a long discussion of good books about the American Founding, to get a jump on the semiquincentennial (250th) anniversary of the Declaration of Independence coming up next July. Steve went with four short books: Edmund Morgan's classic Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789; Martin Diamond's The Founding of the Democratic Republic (hard to find alas); Gordon Wood's The American Revolution: A History (which is both much shorter and better than his famous Creation of the American Republic); and Larry Arnn's The Founders' Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution and What We Risk by Losing It. Lucretia offered up her oral history of how the founding ought to be understood and more importantly taught to students, before settling on a challenging new book. Edward Erler's Prophetic Statesmanship: Harry Jaffa, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address, which doesn't sound like it's about the American Founding, but actually is. And we had a few other stray books to include, which is likely more than our questioner wanted. In any case, much more to come as we draw near to the 250th July 4 next year.

Health care trainees rotate through a variety of different settings. ICUs, hospital wards, and outpatient clinics. If they're lucky, they might even spend time in a nursing home. But on today's podcast, we're adding one more setting to that list: your local art museum. In this thought-provoking episode, we explore how art museum teaching is being integrated into the education of medical professionals—and why it's making a profound difference. Our guests, Amy Klein, Laura Morrison, and Gordon Wood, share their journey of integrating art into medical training, along with practical strategies you can use if you're inspired to do the same. You'll also hear how engaging with museum-based medical education can help health care professionals deepen empathy and emotional awareness, practice the skill of multiple perspective-taking, and grow more comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty. Resources mentioned in the podcast include: A story about one medical student's experience with a day in the museum using multiple museum-based education exercices A Journal Article published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine titled “Museum-Based Education: A Novel Educational Approach for Hospice and Palliative Medicine Training Programs”  A journal article on “Twelve Tips for Starting a Collaboration with an Art Museum.” A handout from the 2025 AAHPM/HPNA preconference gives examples of museum-based education exercises and resources for further training.  Alex's summary of some prompts we discussed for the “Personal Responses Tour”, which is a reflective exercise where participants choose artwork based on a personal prompt, then share with a small group. The prompts include: Find a work of art that reminds you of a patient Find a work of art that reflects a challenging clinical situation Find a work that speaks to an experience you have had in your palliative medicine training that taught you about the impact of bias or racism Find a work that connects to the path you took into palliative care or geriatrics Find a piece that makes you think about community Find a piece that reflects your idea of what a “good death” is Lastly, stay on the “look out for” the 2026 Art Museum-Based Education preconferences session at the AAHPM/HPNA annual meeting on March 4, 2026 in San Diego!    

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Dr. Phillip W. Magness is an economic historian and the David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy at the Independent Institute. Magness' research has appeared in multiple scholarly venues, including the Economic Journal, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Business Ethics, the Southern Economic Journal, and Social Science Quarterly. He is the author of several books including, most recently, The 1619 Project Myth, which is the subject of this conversation. Our conversation was wide-ranging, including an overview of the original 1619 Project of the New York Times, conceived of and edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones; how it was a departure from similar historical projects of the Times before it; the strengths of the 1619 Project; the particular shortcomings of the Project's claims about the economic consequences of slavery; the attempt by the 1619 Project to tie slavery to capitalism; the actual anti-slavery origins of capitalist theory, starting with Adam Smith; the anti-capitalism ante-bellum arguments in the philosophical defense of slavery; the flawed scholarship of the “New History of Capitalism” school; the Project's distortion of the importance of cotton to the American economy before the Civil War, and the strange rehabilitation of “King Cotton” theory; the criticisms of leading historians of the colonial and revolutionary era of Hannah-Jones's claims about the importance of slavery to support for the American Revolution in the South; the status of the “20 and odd” enslaved Blacks who were brought to Jamestown in 1619; the varied influence of the Sommersett ruling in the colonies; Lord Dunmore's famous declaration after the American Revolution had begun; Hannah-Jones's dismissive response to academic criticisms of her claims; that Hannah-Jones was correct in her assessment of Abraham Lincoln's advocacy of “colonization” as a solution to emancipation; the New York Times's strange unwillingness to correct its 1619 Project errors transparently, as it would otherwise do in other contexts; the explicit political and policy agenda behind the 1619 Project; the slow walking-back of some of the Project's most controversial claims via ghost-editing; the insertion of The 1619 Project in public school curricula; and how to develop a school history curriculum that does give a balanced treatment of the history of slavery and Reconstruction. X – @TheHistoryOfTh2 – https://x.com/TheHistoryOfTh2 Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfTheAmericans Selected references for this episode (Commission earned for Amazon purchases through the episode notes on our website) Philip W. Magness, The 1619 Project Myth Nikole Hannah-Jones and other authors, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times' 1619 Project An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times' 1619 Project Philip W. Magness, "The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History" Jake Silverstein, New York Times Magazine, "We Respond to the Historians Who Critiqued The 1619 Project" (free link)

In this episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Alisha Searcy and Kelley Brown, a Massachusetts U.S. history and civics teacher, interview Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Prof. Gordon Wood. Prof. Wood explores the pivotal events and ideas that sparked the American Revolution. He discusses the political tensions of 1775, King George III's imperial policies, and the colonists' transformation from subjects to citizens. Wood highlights Benjamin […]

In this episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Alisha Searcy and Kelley Brown, a Massachusetts U.S. history and civics teacher, interview Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Prof. Gordon Wood. Prof. Wood explores the pivotal events and ideas that sparked the American Revolution. He discusses the political tensions of 1775, King George III's imperial policies, and the colonists' transformation from subjects to citizens. Wood highlights Benjamin Franklin's rise, James Otis's speech against the writs of assistance, and George Washington's crucial military leadership. He also reflects on overlooked Revolutionary era patriots like Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, and George Mason, the role of Minutemen, and how Lexington and Concord galvanized the colonies towards American Independence.

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We are here early this week - for Election Day! And we bring you a panel that looks at elections, and Presidents, from American history, putting this year's choice in perspective.  Gordon Wood, the greatest historian of the early Republic; Steven Smith, an expert on political institutions, on The Federalist, on Lincoln; Paul Grimstad, authority on great American thinkers and writers like Emerson and Thoreau; and of course, Professor Amar, weigh in on all sorts of questions and aspects of this year's crucial choice.  And we have an audience for this live-to-tape podcast - an EverScholar audience - who asks questions on the mind of many.  Here are perspectives you won't gain anywhere else. CLE credit is available for lawyers and judges from podcast.njsba.com.

Pultizer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood discusses how the founders of America intended to thwart the ascendance of demagogues, who could provoke mobs, in the fledgling democracy they were building. To see additional resources and our other programs, please visit humanmedia.org . Humankind specials are  heard on NPR and PRX member-stations, in association with GBH Boston.

Pultizer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood discusses how the founders of America intended to thwart the ascendance of demagogues, who could provoke mobs, in the fledgling democracy they were building. To see additional resources and our other programs, please visit humanmedia.org . Humankind specials are  heard on NPR and PRX member-stations, in association with GBH Boston.

Serious illness communication is hard. We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. That's a hard enough task, given that most of us have never had any communication skills training. It feels nearly impossible if you add another degree of difficulty, whether it be a crying interpreter or a grandchild from another state who shows up at the end of a family meeting yelling how you are killing grandma. On today's podcast, we try to stump three VitalTalk expert faculty, Gordon Wood, Holly Yang, Elise Carey, with some of the most challenging communication scenarios that we (and some of our listeners) could think up. During the podcast, we reference a newly released second-edition book that our guests published titled “Navigating Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope.”  I'd add this to your “must read” list of books, as it takes readers through the VitalTalk method that our guests use so effectively when addressing these challenging scenarios. If you are interested in learning more about VitalTalk, check out their and some of these other podcasts we've done with three of the other authors of this book (and VitalTalk co-founders): Our podcast with Tony Back as well as Wendy Anderson on “Communication Skills in a Time of Crises” Our podcast with James Tulsky on “The Messiness of Medical Decision-Making in Advanced Illness.” Any one of our podcasts with Bob Arnold, including this one on the language of serious illness or this one on books, to become a better mentor. Lastly, I reference Alex's Take Out the Trash video, where he uses communication skills learned in his palliative care training at home with his wife.  The results are… well… let's just say less than perfect.  By: Eric Widera

Serien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om förlorade krigsmål, benämningen andra frihetskriget, nya relationer mellan USA och Storbritannien, demilitarisering av de stora sjöarna, generationsskifte i politiken, nationalism, nytt partisystem, regionalism och krigsironi. Bild: Målning som skildrar firandet av självständighetsdagen 4 juli i Philadelphia 1819 i en nation där nationalismen slagit igenom efter kriget 1812. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Serien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om fredsförhandlingarna i Ghent, John Quincy Adams, Tsar Alexander som medlare, brittisk förhalning, Henry Clay, att göra en Jonathan Russel, Wellington, enhällig senat och ett logiskt men ironiskt fördrag. Bild: Målning som skildrar fredsförhandlingen i Ghent 1814, där man ser John Quincy Adams skaka hand med britten Lord Gambier. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Serien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om federalisternas opposition, regionalism, New England, Mr. Madison´s war, missnöje med expansion västerut, immigration och handelsembargon, Harrison Gray Otis, Hartfordkonventet, förslag på konstitutionella tillägg, feltajming, illojalitetsstämpel och federalisternas undergång. Bild: Tecknad politisk karikatyrbild om Hartfordkonventet som sammanträdde i december 1814. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Serien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om det inre kriget, konflikter inom administrationen, splittrade republikaner, De Witt Clinton, en oense kongress, presidentval, Albert Gallatin, krigsfinanser, en stat i finansiell kris, slopade restriktioner, frågan om värnplikt och handel med fienden. Bild: Porträtt på Albert Gallatin, finansminister 1801-1814, den som suttit längs på posten någonsin. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Serien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om britternas New York offensiv, slaget om Lake Champain, anfall mot Mobile och Pensacola, piratfamiljen Lafitte, Thomas ap Catesby Jones, Andrew Jackson och slaget vid New Orleans, kriget till havs 1814, blockad av New England och ytterligare seger för Old Ironsides. Bild: En målning som skildrar slaget vid New Orleans 1815 med general Andrew Jackson snett uppe till höger. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we approach our 200th episode we talk with Gordon Wood on his first book, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776 - 1787 which ranks among the most important books ever written about the American Revolutionary period and the formation of the American Republic.  Join us as to hear about what the founders got right, what they got wrong, and how it continues to influence and evolve in America today.Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

Serien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om fred i Europa, brittisk kraftsamling i Amerika, slagen vid Chippewa Creek och Lundy´s Lane, president Madison i fält, Bladenburg races, Dolly Madisons evakuering, Washington invaderas och bränns, Baltimore 3:e staden, Bombningen av Fort McHenry, Congreveraketer Francis Scott Key och Star Sprangled Banner. Bild: Målning som skildrar när britterna bränner Washington D.C. den 24 augusti 1814. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Serien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om britternas motoffensiv på haven, blockaden av USA:s kust, enorma prisökningar, minskade tullintäkter, amerikanska kapare, strandhugg i Virginia, befriandet av slavar, USS Chesapeake och USS Essex förluster och True-Blooded Yankees bedrifter. Bild: Målning som skildrar duellen mellan USS Chesapeake och HMS Shannon 1 juni 1813. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Serien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om Oliver Hazard Perry, Lake Eire, slaget vid Put In Bay, Fort Raisin massakern, slaget vid Frenchtown, slaget vid Thames, Tecumseh stupar, Creek kriget, red sticks, Fort Mims massakern, Andrew ”Old Hickory” Jackson, slaget vid Horseshoe Bend och Fort Jackson fördraget. Bild: Skildring i en bok från 1800-talet av slaget vid Horseshoe Bend som rasade 27 mars 1814. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Serien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om förändringar i ledarskapet, kontrollen av de stora sjöarna, kapten Isaac Chauncey, anfallet och brännandet av staden York, äventyraren Zebulon Pike, Sackets Harbor, Fort George, kriget hårdnar, konspiratören James Wilkinson och slaget vid Chrystler´s Farm. Bild: Målning som skildrar slaget vid Chrystler´s Farm 11 november 1813. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Serien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om skeppstyper, amerikansk eldkraft, superfregatter, kapare, att utmana brittiska flottan, sjöslag och dueller, USS Constitution, moralhöjande amerikanska segrar, Old Ironsides, brittisk chock, USS United States och Stephen Decatur.Bild: Slaget mellan USS Constitution och HMS Guerriere 19 augusti 1812. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miniserien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om fronterna Detroit, Niagara och Montreal, den gamle William Hull, Isaac Brocks psykologiska krigsföring, den fruktade Tecumseh, Fort Mackinacs fall, Fort Dearborn massakern, befälsförvirring, Winfield Scott, striden vid Queenston Heights, General Dearborn och en misslyckad kanadaoffensiv. Bild: Den amerikanska kapitulationen av Fort Detroit 1812. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miniserien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om det logiska och ologiska med Kanada som krigsmål, splittrade republikaner, styrkeförhållandena, reguljära armens förfall, brist på frivilliga, milistruppernas ovilja för offensiva krig, kasst krigsdepartement, inkompetenta officerare, logistisk mardröm, dåligt omdöme kring ministrar och Madison som svag president. Bild: Porträtt av James Madison från hans presidenttid, kriget 1812 kallas också Mr. Madisons war. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miniserien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om krigshökar, 12:e kongressen, talmannen Henry Clay, upprustning, John Calhoun, fågelskrämmafraktionen, Madisons krigsuppmaning, kongressens splittrade krigsförklaring, försenade brittiska eftergifter, bluffar och krigsmål. Bild: Krigshöken och talmannen Henry Clay som bidrog till att skicka landet i krig 1812. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miniserien om kriget 1812 fortsätter. Det kommer att handla om Monroe-Pinckney fördraget, Chesapeakeincidenten, Jeffersons embargo 1807, presidentvalet 1808, Monroe utmanar Madison, Copenhagen Jackson, Macons Bill No 2, Lilla Bält incidenten, Tecumseh och slaget vid Tippecanoe 1811. Bild: En politisk karikatyrbild från 1807 som var kritisk mot embargot, där embargot kastats om till Ograbme. Källa: WikipediaPrenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dags för en miniserie om kriget 1812 mot Storbritannien. Det kommer att handla om Napoleonkrigen, neutralitet, handel, kidnappning av sjömän, handelsblockader, Kvasikriget med Frankrike, Jays fördrag, att behärska hav och land, Orders-in-council och Berlin- och Milandekreten. Prenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comBild: En målning som föreställer hur det amerikanska skeppet USS Constellation strider mot det franska skeppet L´Insurgente under det så kallade Kvasikriget mot Frankrike i feb 1799. Källa: WikipediaLitteratur:- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- 1812 The war that forged a nation, Walter Borneman- The war of 1812: Conflict for a continent, J.C.A Stagg- The war of 1812: A forgotten conflict, Donald Hickey- Unshackling America: How the war of 1812 truly ended the American revolution, Willard Randall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inspired by an email from a longstanding and attentive listener, this Sidebar episode examines an essay by Gordon Wood introducing his book The Purpose of the Past. We consider what it means to have a "historical sense," and the humility that comes with it. We also look at the history of the debate over the purpose of history, and briefly at the difference between critical theory, on the one hand, and teaching the "ugly parts," on the other. X (Twitter): @TheHistoryOfTh2 Facebook: The History of the Americans Podcast Subscribe by email Selected references for this episode Gordon Wood, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History David Motadel, "The Political Role of the Historian," Contemporary European History, 2023.