FILE-President Barack Obama presents a National Humanities Medal to author, historian and Brown University professor emeritus, Gordon Wood during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Gett
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Gordon S. Wood, a scholar who created an influential and debated narrative of the nation’s early years of independence through such prize-winning works as “The Creation of the American Republic,” has died. He was 92.
Wood died June7 after he was hit by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island, police told The Associated Press.
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Wood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and professor emeritus at Brown University, authored dozens of books and essays, with his research becoming standard references for conversations about the formation of the U.S. and the legacy of the revolution.
The AP reported that President Barack Obama in 2011 presented Wood with a National Humanities Medal “for scholarship that provides insight into the founding of the nation and the drafting of the U.S. Constitution.”
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Who was Gordon S. Wood?
The backstory:
Gordon Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and he later attended Tufts University, from which he graduated summa cum laude. Wood also received a master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
During his career, he published prize-winning works such as “The Creation of the American Republic” and “The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
The AP reported that some of Woods’ other books included “Revolutionary Characters” and “The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin.”
Wood married Louise Goss in 1956, and the couple had three children, two of whom became history professors.
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