{"id":221,"date":"2026-10-27T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/?page_id=221"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:29:26","slug":"writing-about-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/writing-about-the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing about the Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynewsnetwork.org\/article\/witness-to-a-revolution\">Egnal article<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Progressive historians \/\/ Charles Beard, Merrill Jensen (class analysis)<\/li>\n<li>Ne0-Whig historians \/\/ Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood (republicanism)<\/li>\n<li>Social historians \/\/ Alfred Young, Gary Nash (Vast Early America)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_222\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Bailyn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"wp-image-222 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Bailyn-300x171.png\" alt=\"Bailyn\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Bailyn-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Bailyn-1024x584.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Bailyn-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Bailyn-900x513.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Bailyn.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernard Bailyn<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_223\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Wood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-image-223 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Wood-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wood\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Wood-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Wood.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gordon Wood<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<hr>\n<h2>Good Will Hunting on Gordon Wood<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nx857dcV6mc?si=YGjziIdU_atYB3r_\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/files\/2026\/10\/Handout-Washington-on-Leadership.docx\">Handout &#8211;Washington on Leadership<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egnal article Progressive historians \/\/ Charles Beard, Merrill Jensen (class analysis) Ne0-Whig historians \/\/ Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood (republicanism) Social historians \/\/ Alfred Young, Gary Nash (Vast Early America) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Good Will Hunting on Gordon Wood &nbsp; Handout &#8211;Washington on Leadership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-221","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}