One of the most celebrated scholars of the American Revolutionary era is Gordon Wood. In surfing the Web, I came across an interview with Gordon Wood - an interview conducted on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
Follow this link for an interview with renowned historian Gordon Wood.
Gordon Wood's newest book, The Purpose of the Past (2008), consists of previously published review essays on a range of history books. It would take a lot of digging to track them down individually; putting them together in one text makes for a nice primer on issues of historiography over the past few decades.
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