Gordon S. Wood, eminent historian of the American Revolution, dies at 92

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author explored fundamental questions about what it means to be an American. He died Sunday after being struck by a car.

By Paul Vitello

Gordon S Wood, Pulitzer-prize winning historian, dies after being struck by a car in Rhode Island

A renowned academic, Wood was hit by a car as he was crossing a supermarket’s parking lot and later died of the injuries Gordon S Wood, a Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, was killed on Sunday when he was struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in Rhode Island. Wood, 92, won the Pulitzer in 1993 in the history category for The Radicalisation of the American Revolution, a landmark tome that advanced the theory of the break with Britain being at least as much of an internal soci...

By Richard Luscombe

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood dead at age 92 after being hit by car in store parking lot

President Obama presented him a National Humanities Medal in 2011

By Hillel Italie

Gordon S. Wood, influential scholar of the American Revolution, dies at 92

Gordon S. Wood cause of death: How did eminent historian of American Revolution die? All on his tragic demise at 92

Gordon S. Wood, a renowned historian of the American Revolution, was killed by a vehicle in East Providence at 92.