Live! at the Drake Library and Citizens Arise: "Citizens Arise!", Gordon S. Wood
Channel: Cowles Library
Date: 2012-08-01

November 5, 2009.  Speaking in conjunction with the start of our Citizens Arise series, Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor Emeritus at Brown University.  He received his BA degree from Tufts University and his PhD from Harvard University.  He taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Brown in 1969.  His latest book, "The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History," was published in 2008.  Professor Wood is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.