Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 2026 This essay examines how Wood has articulated the purpose of the past in his public writings and why he believes too many contemporary academic historians have violated their professional responsibility and engaged in...
Critical Historical Studies Fall 2025 This article asks whether the history discipline is prepared to respond to the changes taking place around us, including the revival of nationalism. The article's goal is to help scholars understand the deeper ideas animating...
Perspectives on History 07/14/2025 In a new age of nations, how we tell national stories will become more important than ever.
The Hedgehog Review 6/24/2022 It was the evening before the Fourth of July in the last year of his tumultuous presidency, and I sat in front of my television transfixed and horrified as Donald Trump delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore, ostensibly a celebration of...
Cambridge University Press 11/20/2018 Gordon Wood stoked a strong response from his fellow early American historians in 2015 when, in the pages of the Weekly Standard, he accused the Omohundro Institute of Early American History, publishers of the prestigious William...
History and Theory 2/11/2011 Historians around the world have sought to move beyond national history. In doing so, they often conflate ethical and methodological arguments against national history. This essay, first, draws a clear line between the ethical and the...