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Prominent Historian Gordon Wood Dies in Rhode Island Parking-Lot Crash

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Prominent Historian Gordon Wood Dies in Rhode Island Parking-Lot Crash
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood, 92, was struck by a motorist in a Shaw's Supermarket parking lot in East Providence, RI, and died from his injuries. The driver remained on scene and cooperates with police; the crash is under investigation with no charges filed. Wood was Brown University's professor emeritus and a leading scholar of the American Revolution.

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