Quotes by : Gordon S. Wood

In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only....

Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more....

In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or....

Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness....

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing....

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with....

The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall....