Pulitzer Prize-winner Gordon Wood to lecture for Constitution Day
Posted 9/24/2007
Gordon Wood, the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University, will speak at from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in the Renaissance Room at Vanderbilt Law School. The lecture is open to faculty, staff and students.
Wood’s books include The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1993.
Constitution Day was established by Congress in 2004 and calls for a program on the U.S. Constitution at colleges and universities on or around Sept. 17 each year.
The lecture is sponsored by the Constitutional Law and Theory Program at Vanderbilt Law School.
Contact: Jim Patterson, (615)343-1271
jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu
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