Gordon Wood, Influential Revolutionary-Era Historian, Dies at 92 After Parking-Lot Accident
Gordon S. Wood, Brown University professor emeritus and a foundational voice on the American Revolution, died at 92 after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island. His influential works, including The Creation of the American Republic and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, shaped scholarly debates about the nation’s founding.
