Gordon S. Wood, Influential Scholar of the American Revolution, Dies at 92
The historian’s scholarship reshaped views of the American Revolution, and Barack Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal in 2011.
- Gordon S. Wood, the eminent Brown University professor emeritus and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, died Sunday at 92 after being struck by a car in an East Providence, Rhode Island, supermarket parking lot.
- Wood forged a highly influential narrative of early American independence through prize-winning works including "The Creation of the American Republic," which won the 1970 Bancroft Prize, and "The Radicalism of the American Revolution," which won the Pulitzer in 1993.
- Describing himself as a "simple hedgehog" who focused on the revolution, Wood regarded it as "the most important event in American history, bar none."
- Wood became a prominent critic of The New York Times' 1619 Project, alleging it encouraged a sense of "victimhood," while warning against "Presentism"—scolding historical figures for past mistakes.
- Historian David Hackett Fischer noted Wood's scholarship "altered the way historians thought about their field," while his work reached moviegoers through the Academy Award-winning "Good Will Hunting.
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