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Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

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A painting of the American Founders at the Constitutional Convention.

Inventing American Constitutionalism

On "Power and Liberty," a condensed version of Gordon Wood's entire sweep of scholarship about constitutionalism.

by Gordon S. Wood, Brian A. Smith via Law & Liberty on March 10, 2023

Aaron Burr: Most Hated Man in American History

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

by Gordon S. Wood, Matthew Wills, Herbert Sloan via JSTOR Daily on January 14, 2016

Painting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin while writing the Declaration of Independence.

How the Complete Meaning of July Fourth Is Slipping Away

John Adams would not be happy to see what Independence Day has become.

by Gordon S. Wood via The New Republic on July 4, 2011

Trumbull painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Dusting Off the Declaration

The Declaration of Independence seems to Pauline Maier to be "peculiarly unsuited" for the role that it eventually came to play in America.

by Gordon S. Wood via New York Review of Books on August 14, 1997

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