In 2011 Wood was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. Way Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and his books include the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Radicalism of the American Revolution and the Bancroft Prize–winning The Creation of the American Republic 1776–1787. We recently interviewed acclaimed historian Gordon S. This month, for the 250th anniversary of the Stamp Act Crisis, The Library of America is publishing The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764–1776, a two-volume collection that captures the extraordinary political debate which led, in just twelve years, to the Declaration of Independence and the end of the first British empire. In the summer of 1765, anti-tax riots roiled Great Britain’s North American colonies from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Charleston, South Carolina, the first stirrings of what became the American Revolution. Wood: How the American Revolution “infused into our culture our noblest ideals and highest aspirations” Gordon S.
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