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Gordon Wood on Bernard Bailyn: American Religious History and “An Honest Picture of the Past”

First published in Religion in American History. March 6, 2015.  I wasn’t going to write on Gordon Wood and Bernard Bailyn. I’m not a colonialist. It’s been years since I’ve read their work, which in my recollection is far and away more brilliant than anything I’ve aspired…