Peter H Wood

Biographic Data

ID3607308
NAMEPeter H Wood
GIVEN NAMESPeter H
FAMILY NAMEWood
SIGNATUREWOOD P H
AFFILIATIONSDuke University
ORCID0000-0002-2265-2320
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS58
TOTAL CITATIONS251
AUTHOR COUNT57
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7

  • The Cambridge History of the American Revolution

    Open AccessChristian Ayne Crouch, Trevor Burnard et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of the…2025

    The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmenta…

  • Viewpoint: The Blackout and the Enlightenment: Forced Black Illiteracy before the Revolution

    Open AccessPeter H WoodCHAPTERThe Cambridge History of the…2025

    Laws that prohibited enslaved people from learning to read and write first appeared in the South in the decades before the Revolution. Newspapers were expanding, and literacy rates among white colonists were rising. The first such clause, designed to forbid writing, appeared in South Carolina’s slave statute of 1740, enacted in response to the 1739 Stono Uprising. As enslaved populations grew, other colonies followed this example and expanded on …

  • Can Colonial Historians Move From "Vast" to "Deep

    Peter H Wood, Peter WoodARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2025

  • The Changing Population of the Colonial South: An Overview by Race and Region, 1685–1790

    Peter H WoodCHAPTERPowhatan's Mantle2017

  • Slavery At Sea: Terror, Sex, And Sickness In The Middle Passage

    Open AccessPeter H WoodARTICLECivil War Book Review2017Cited by: 5

    Diving into the Wreck For a century, docile mainstream American historians managed to dismiss race-based enslavement as the central cause of the Civil War -- an amazing feat. And they also managed, for the most part, to avoid looking hard at the huge and long-lived Atlantic Slave Trade. But with

  • White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812

    Winthrop D Jordan, Christopher Leslie Brown et al.BOOKWhite over Black2012Cited by: 157

    This book sets out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition reminds us that this text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era. Every book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon this work; all are judged in…

  • Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War

    Peter H Wood, Peter WoodBOOKNear Andersonville2010

  • Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States

    Jack D Forbes, Juan Flores et al.BOOKAfro-Latin@ Reader2010

  • The Earliest Africans in North America

    Open AccessPeter H WoodCHAPTERAfro-Latin@ Reader2010

  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States

    Open AccessJack D Forbes, Peter H Wood et al.BOOKAfro-Latin@ Reader2010

    The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans…

  • From Atlantic History To A Continental Approach

    Peter H WoodCHAPTERAtlantic history2008

    For several centuries, chroniclers of the North American experience before 1800 have faced a basic dilemma—so basic, in fact, that it is rarely recognized or stated. Put bluntly, the familiar but vexing paradox is this: Should “early American history” concern the growth and expansion of European colonies, particularly those English-speaking ones along the east coast that eventually combined to form the United States and to push westward across th…

  • This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775

    Peter H WoodARTICLEAgricultural History2007

    Book Review| April 01 2007 This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775 This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775. Bradford J. Wood. Peter H. Wood Peter H. Wood Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 261–263. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.2.261 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitte…

  • Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, Revised and Expanded Edition

    M Thomas Hatley, Gregory A Waselkov et al.BOOKPowhatan's Mantle2006

  • Weathering the Storm: "Inside Winslow Homer's "Gulf Stream

    P Sterling Stuckey, Peter H Wood et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2005

    Perhaps no other American painting is at once so familiar and so little understood as Winslow Homer's The Gulf Stream (1899). For more than a century, scholars have praised the artist and yet puzzled over this harrowing scene of a black man adrift in the open sea, in a derelict boat surrounded by sharks. Critical commentary, when it has departed at all from the painting's composition and coloring, has generally viewed The Gulf Stream as a univers…

  • Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (review)

    Peter H WoodARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    Reviewed by: Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations Peter H. Wood Sharla M. Fett . Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. Gender and American Culture. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiii + 290 pp. Ill. $39.95 (cloth, 0-8078-2709-6), $18.95 (paperbound, 0-8078-5378-X). When William Postell published The Health of Slaves on Southern Plantations in 1951, he be…

  • The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

    Peter H Wood, Peter Linebaugh et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2003Cited by: 10

  • The Wreck of the "Belle", the Ruin of La Salle

    Peter H Wood, Peter Wood et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2002

  • In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860

    Peter H WoodREVIEWAfrican American Review1999

    Covering the colonial period to the Civil War and spanning all of the northern United States, this text documents the antebellum northern black experience. In examining churches, schools, music, living arrangements, occupations, even the underground railroad, it demonstrates the central role of the black community in successfully managing the tensions born of assimilation and cultural difference. In the process, it shows the extensive national co…

  • Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803

    Peter H Wood, Kimberly S HangerARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803. By Kimberly S. Hanger. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. xiv, 248 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-1906-3. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8223-1898-9) Get access Peter H. Wood Peter H. Wood Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, Jun…

  • Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810

    Peter H Wood, James SidburyARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1998

    During the summer of 1800, slaves in and around Richmond conspired to overthrow their masters and abolish slavery. This book uses Gabriel's Conspiracy, and the evidence produced during the repression of the revolt, to expose the processes through which Virginians of African descent built an oppositional culture. Sidbury portrays the rich cultures of eighteenth-century black Virginians, and the multiple, and sometimes conflicting, senses of identi…

  • Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831

    Peter H Wood, Michael MullinARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1995Cited by: 2

  • Walter Abbott Wood (1907-1993)

    Open AccessPeter H WoodARTICLEARCTIC1994

    Approximately 70 years ago a young man developed a deep and very personal relationship with the mountain world and a keen interest in the scientific investigation of its natural wonders. ... His successful academics and his mountain prowess led Wood to the American Geographical Society in New York City, where in the 1930s he directed the Society's Department of Exploration and Field Research. It was at the AGS that he conceived of and developed a…

  • Before Jamestown

    Peter H Wood, Paul E HoffmanARTICLEReviews in American History1992

  • The Painting and Politics of George Caleb Bingham

    Peter H Wood, Peter Wood et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1992

  • Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast

    Kathleen Bragdon, Peter H Wood et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1992Cited by: 8

    Part One, Geography and Population Introduction, Peter H. Wood (Duke University) Land and Water Communication Systems of Southeastern Indians, Helen Hornbeck Tanner (Newberry Library) Aboriginal Population Movements in Early Historic Period Interior Southeast, Marvin T. Smith (Valdosta State University) Changing Population of Colonial South: An Overview by Race and Region, 1685-1790, Peter H. Wood (Duke University) Interconnectedness and Diversit…