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"This powerful sense of equality is still alive and well in America, and despite all of its disturbing and unsettling consequences, it is what makes us one people."
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He focused on the idea of equality as "the most radical and most powerful ideological force" that the American Revolution unleashed. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic.Ī recent project was the third volume of the Oxford History of the United States – Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009) – a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.Ĭontributing to the anthology Our American Story (2019), Wood addressed the possibility of a shared American narrative. In addition to his books (listed below), Wood has written numerous influential articles, notably "Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution" (1966), "Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century" (1982), and "Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution" (1987). Wood has taught at Harvard University, the College of William and Mary, the University of Michigan, Brown University, and in 1982–83 was Pitt Professor at Cambridge University. program in history at Harvard, where he studied under Bernard Bailyn, receiving his Ph.D. at Harvard University, he entered the Ph.D. After serving in the United States Air Force in Japan, during which time he earned an A.M. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Tufts University in 1955 and has served as a trustee there. Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and grew up in Worcester and Waltham.