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Distributed September 13, 2005
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Gordon Wood To Speak on ‘The Origins of American Constitutionalism’

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood will deliver the inaugural lecture for Brown University’s new annual series, Constitutional Debates: A Lecture Series on the United States Constitution. Wood’s lecture, titled “The Origins of American Constitutionalism,” begins at 4 p.m. in Room 001 of the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green.


PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood will deliver the inaugural lecture for Brown University’s new annual series, Constitutional Debates: A Lecture Series on the United States Constitution. Wood’s lecture, titled “The Origins of American Constitutionalism,” begins at 4 p.m. in Room 001 of the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green.

Lectures in this series will allow members of the Brown community and the general public to see the Constitution not only as a document that created and has guided the nation’s political institutions, but also as a document through which citizens can understand changing notions of justice, fairness, equality, and public and private responsibility.

All lectures in the series are free and open to public. They are designed to further enrich the intellectual life of our campus and community, deepening our understanding of the Constitution.

Who
Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Alva O. Way University Professor

What
“The Origins of American Constitutionalism”
The inaugural lecture of a new annual lecture series, Constitutional Debates: A Lecture Series on the United States Constitution.

When
4 p.m., Thursday, September 15, 2005

Where
Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 001

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