Dr. Gordon S. Wood at Mercer: 'What Made the Founders Different'

Award-winning historian and author Dr. Gordon S. Wood gave a Mercer Lyceum on Nov. 17 on the Macon campus. The lecture was part of the Center for the Teaching of America's Western Foundations' lecture series and the Mercer Lyceum, a University-wide initiative featuring programs under the theme "Rebuilding Democracy."
Dr. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize for his book, "The Radicalism of the American Revolution." He has written, co-written or edited 20 books on history over his illustrious career. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
For more information on the Center visit: foundationscentermu.com.

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As a British person, the American Revolution is the only era of world history that I find endlessly fascinating.

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Really brilliant, an important topic, andd invaluable perspective. Thank you.

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What an excellent lecture.

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Excellent is a understatement! 😀

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This is fantastic

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God Bless America and God Bless Gordon Wood!!❤️🇺🇸

[@RyanBravata]

Thank you for this video of the preeminent early republic historian.

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We always say before the Industrial Revolution; which one" Then it be before what stage of the demise of Great Nature; the the assertion or accent of money over all life; because of less and less nature gratis available..

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I’ve read a letter written by Jefferson where he evoked Jesus’ name. So he must have changed his mind in his later years.