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March 28, 2008 Last Aired September 5, 2011
Q&A with Gordon Wood

Historian Gordon Wood talked about his book The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, published by Penguin Press. This book is a collection of his reviews of works by othe…
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September 27, 2008 Last Aired February 2, 2009
The Purposes of the Past

Gordon Wood talked about the concept of “presentism", or the tendency of historians to view the past from the perspective of the present. He also talked about the gap between "popular” and “…
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