{"id":1306,"date":"2015-08-26T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/?page_id=1306"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:52:17","slug":"gordon-woods-american-revolution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/map-room\/gordon-woods-american-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Wood&#8217;s American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This map, \u201cAmerican Revolution,\u201d exists on Google Maps and owes its greatest debt to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/193549\/the-american-revolution-by-gordon-s-wood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gordon Wood&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The American Revolution <\/em>(2002)<\/a>, but also incorporates\u00a0a host of online resources from Dickinson College\u00a0and elsewhere.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=zS0NgIMIUm5g.k9exhwIIPq_Q\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO USE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click on menu (upper left) for a chronological listing of place marks arranged in three\u00a0layers (Colonial Crisis, War for Independence and Building a Republic) in order to find coverage of the period roughly from 1765-1788 with a concentration on the Revolutionary War itself. \u00a0Each blue-and-gold Dickinosn placemark contains images\u00a0with short snippets of text from Gordon Wood&#8217;s\u00a0<i>The\u00a0American Revolution<\/i>\u00a0(Modern Library, 2002), followed by\u00a0links to the full text of related\u00a0primary sources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRIMARY SOURCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/charters\/constitution.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Constitution<\/a>\u00a0(original)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/press-pubs.uchicago.edu\/founders\/tocs\/toc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Founders\u2019 Constitution<\/a>\u00a0(annotated)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Interview with Gordon Wood on Revolutionary Characters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?193080-1\/after-words-gordon-wood\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3360 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-10.52.56-AM-1024x544.png\" alt=\"Wood\" width=\"940\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-10.52.56-AM-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-10.52.56-AM-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-10.52.56-AM-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-10.52.56-AM-1536x816.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-10.52.56-AM-500x266.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-10.52.56-AM.png 2036w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><em>Answer key:\u00a0 (pairs from top to bottom and left to right:\u00a0 George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Adams, Thomas Paine and Aaron Burr.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map, \u201cAmerican Revolution,\u201d exists on Google Maps and owes its greatest debt to Gordon Wood&#8217;s\u00a0The American Revolution (2002), but also incorporates\u00a0a host of online resources from Dickinson College\u00a0and elsewhere. HOW TO USE Click on menu (upper left) for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/map-room\/gordon-woods-american-revolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":3298,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1306\/revisions\/5121"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}