Gordon Wood and the Historians Who Told the Real Story of the Founders
It’s an occasion to reflect on the uniqueness, indeed the idiosyncrasy, of the emergence of the primacy of this United States among the nations of the world. As the historian Walter McDougall has pointed out, a catalog of world civilizations in the year 1600 looks, with one exception, much like the world today. There is a prosperous and populous China at one end of Eurasia and a prosperous and populous Europe at the other.
- ▪It’s an occasion to reflect on the uniqueness, indeed the idiosyncrasy, of the emergence of the primacy of this United States among the nations of the world.
- ▪As the historian Walter McDougall has pointed out, a catalog of world civilizations in the year 1600 looks, with one exception, much like the world today.
- ▪There is a prosperous and populous China at one end of Eurasia and a prosperous and populous Europe at the other.
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Home – Founding Fathers & American History – Gordon Wood and the Historians Who Told the Real Story of the Founders opinion Gordon Wood and the Historians Who Told the Real Story of the Founders Michael Barone • June 21, 2026 Print President Barack Obama presents a National Humanities Medal to author and historian Gordon Wood during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images) (function(){var t=document.querySelector(".wp-block-kadence-dynamichtml"),s=document.currentScript.previousElementSibling;if(t&&s){if("prepend"==="before_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t);else if("prepend"==="after_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t.nextSibling);else if("prepend"==="prepend"||"prepend"==="inside_first_child")t.insertBefore(s,t.firstChild);else…
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