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The Revolutionary Gordon Wood
The American Revolution was revolutionary. That’s the deceptively simple claim to which Gordon Wood, the historian who was tragically killed at the age of 92 on Sunday, devoted his career. The Revolution, of course, overthrew a monarchy—but the freedoms it advanced were unequally enjoyed, and the Founders left a great deal undone.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood dead at age 92 after being hit by car in store parking lot
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood dead at age 92 after being hit by car in store parking lot Wood, a professor emeritus at Brown University, died Sunday after being struck by a car - Bookmark Pulitzer-prize winning historian Gordon S. Wood has died at the age of 92 after he was hit by a car in Rhode Island. Wood, a professor emeritus at Brown University, died Sunday after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot, according to police in East Providence. The eminent and...
Gordon S Wood, Pulitzer-prize winning historian, dies after being struck by a car in Rhode Island
A renowned academic, Wood was hit by a car as he was crossing a supermarket’s parking lot and later died of the injuriesGordon S Wood, a Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, was killed on Sunday when he was struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in Rhode Island. Wood, 92, won the Pulitzer in 1993 in the history category for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, a landmark tome that advanced the theory of the break with Britain being at least as much of an internal social...
Gordon S Wood, Pulitzer-prize winning historian, dies after being struck by a car in Rhode Island
A renowned academic, Wood was hit by a car as he was crossing a supermarket’s parking lot and later died of the injuriesGordon S Wood, a Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, was killed on Sunday when he was struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in Rhode Island. Wood, 92, won the Pulitzer in 1993 in the history category for The Radicalisation of the American Revolution, a landmark tome that advanced the theory of the break with Britain being at least as much of an internal...
King George III’s mad tyrant myth crumbles as new history redefines America’s origin
King George III’s mad tyrant myth crumbles as new history redefines America’s origin King George inherited the throne in 1760 at age 22, overseeing an empire stretching across continents - Bookmark The long-held image of "Mad" King George III, immortalized as a tyrannical villain in American popular culture from "Hamilton" to "Schoolhouse Rock," is undergoing a significant historical re-evaluation ahead of the United States' 250th birthday. For centuries, Americans have known him as the...
<em>The Atlantic</em>’s July Issue: How to Tell the American Story
For its July issue, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States, The Atlantic considers how to tell the American story, with contributions from its staff writers and editors, including Yoni Appelbaum, Ian Bogost, Sally Jenkins, Idrees Kahloon, Adrienne LaFrance, Helen Lewis, Jake Lundberg, Clint Smith, and Caity Weaver. In an editor’s note for the issue, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg writes: “You will see in this issue (and, I hope, in everything we do) that our...
Boston: A travel guide to the 2026 World Cup host city
France, England, Scotland and Norway are among the nations who will play World Cup group games at the Boston Stadium in Foxborough. After more than 30 years, the FIFA World Cup is back in Boston, Massachusetts – or at least it's near to one of America’s great sporting cities. World Cup games will be hosted in the small town of Foxborough – about 30 miles south of “Beantown” – for the first time since 1994, when the now-demolished Foxboro Stadium hosted eventual runner-up Italy’s 2-1 win over...
History Repeats in Cuba
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsSometimes when President Trump talks about Cuba, he throws in compliments. “They have a nice landscape. You know it’s a beautiful island,” he said during a signing event at the Oval Office in March. “I do believe I’ll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor.” Sometimes he toys with the idea of conquest a little more menacingly, such as when he said at the same event: “Whether I free it, take it—I think...
REPS ANDY HARRIS, KEITH SELF, SEN RICK SCOTT: Fix FISA. Don’t spy on us
America’s founding generation did not take up arms merely over unreasonable taxation. They understood ceding their rights to the government for promise of security was a bad deal. They believed risking death to live free was better than subsisting under tyranny.
Don’t Build the Arch
The meanings of words such as honor, sacrifice, and humility have been leaking away from American civic life like red blood cells from an anemic. But if there’s one place where they retain their rich, sticky, life-giving force, it’s surely in the air around the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery is where Americans remember those who sacrificed their lives for the nation.