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In Memoriam, Gordon S. Wood
The following essay originally appeared in National Review on June 10, 2026.
The past six months have not been good to American historians. On Christmas Day, we lost the eminent Daniel Walker Howe, whose books were my nominees for a...
How Do We Tell the American Story?
These comments were offered by Allen Guelzo on a panel together with Yale University’s Beverly Gage at the Jack Miller Center’s National Summit on Civic Education in Philadelphia on May 19, 2026.
It has long been an assumption that...
America’s First Constitution – Part Two
This is the second installment of a two-part essay on the Articles of Confederation. Part One was posted on July 24, 2026.
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The Articles of Confederation (page 1 of 14)
The debates over the Articles would resume in Co...
America's First Constitution - Part One
When we’re talking about the major documents of the American Revolutionary era, we often allow our attention to slide from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the convention which wrote the Constitution in 1787 as though there were n...
Birthright Citizenship and the Making of Citizens
An edited version of the following essay originally appeared in Washington Monthly on March 31, 2026. The subject and argument dovetail nicely with week’s post, entitled “My American Heritage.”
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