The Things He'll Never Say

I’m deeply saddened—indeed, gutted—to learn about the tragic death of my dissertation advisor, Gordon S. Wood. Professor Wood was America’s greatest living scholar of the America’s revolutionary-founding period and quite possibly the greatest of all time. Even though he was 92, he was still as intellectually active as he was when I met first him 40 years ago. (I will link to a few of his interviews and lectures below.)