The Constitutionalist

Gordon Wood and America at 250 w/ C. Bradley Thompson

Episode Summary

Prof. C. Bradley Thompson is the Director of the Snow Institute for the Study of Capitalism at Clemson University. He joined Ben and Tony to discuss the late Gordon Wood, eminent historian of the American Revolutionary period. We also discussed Brad's project for a "new moral history," which was inspired by what he learned from Wood but also by his rejection of the "ideological history" approach of Wood and his mentor, Bernard Bailyn.

Episode Notes

C. Bradley Thompson has a web page which outlines his scholarship, teaching, and his leadership in broader Civics movement, which can be found here: https://cbradleythompson.com/about/

The Snow Institute for the Study of Capitalism can be found here: https://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/capitalism/sisc/ 

His most recent book is America's Revolutionary Mind: A Morel History of the American Revolution and the Declaration that Defined It, out with Encounter Books.

A leading expert on the political thought of John Adams, he has written John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty. with University Press of Kansas.

He has also written, w/ Yaron Brook, Neoconservatism: An Obituary of an Idea.