The sudden death of the historian GordonWood, just weeks before the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one more mark of the closure of a golden age of the historiography of the Revolutionary era ... .
But by the time Matt Damon name-checked Gordon S. Wood on “the ... from working-class Concord, Mass., Gordon Wood had been both of these types and more, while keeping a professorial distance from all.
The sudden death of the historian GordonWood, just weeks before the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one more mark of the closure of a golden age of the historiography of the Revolutionary era.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood has died. He was 92. Police say Wood died Sunday after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island. Wood wrote many books and was a longtime ... .
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood has died. He was 92. Police say Wood died Sunday after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island. Wood wrote many books and was a longtime ... .
Climb the observation tower to hike the adjacent woods. Historian Gordon S ... Gordon S. Wood, the state’s most distinguished historian and one of America’s great interpreters of the founding era, has died ... I am proud to have called Gordon Wood my friend.
Wood, who died at the age of 92 on June 8, 2026 ... "Gordon Wood was a paramount scholar and educator, deeply invested in documenting the motives, influences, and legacy of America's founders," said NEHActing Chairman William English.
That’s the deceptively simple claim to which GordonWood, the historian who was tragically killed at the age of 92 on Sunday, devoted his career ... We all need the idea of Gordon Wood.
“You’re gonna be in here regurgitating GordonWood, talking about, you know, the pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.” (Ideas, Wood would point out, that he did not endorse).