Historian of the North American West + Great Plains + Midwest. Nebraskan. Outdoorsman. Smallholder. Writing on ag, cities, capitalism, cows, grasslands, environment, conservation, public lands. Here for the books. And dogs. GBR.
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Currently reading: Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right by David Austin Walsh 📚
I’m rarely at a loss for words but today I don’t have many for the enormity and the complexity of Gordon Wood’s legacy - I was inspired by his work even as I agreed with about 1/2 and was often irritated by the rest. RIP. A real one. www.brown.edu/news/2026-06...
Babes, Syed, my 105k word manuscript went off to the reviewers earlier this year and I can guarantee you I typed in every single citation in there.
I think I have several hundred footnotes, but yes.
I just heard the truly terrible news about Gordon Wood. This last fall I was able to spend some time with him and an undergraduate student conducting an oral history about 1976, part of a Brown 2026 project.
At the end, Wood told me how much he loves his family and being in his 90s.
I just received the terribly distressing news that Gordon Wood was hit by a car and killed yesterday. We were together with other Founding era scholars at the 2nd Judicial Circuit conference last week at Lake George, and he was as usual in fine fettle and as always enjoyable to talk to.
Put wind or solar on the land that grows ethanol corn. Run electric vehicles off the power. Use 99% less land per mile driven, at far lower cost. Let farmers use the freed-up land to do actual farmer stuff, like growing real food for humans and being good custodians of land for future generations.
