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MICHAEL BARONE: Gordon Wood and the historians who told the real story of the Founders

Goshen News 13 Jun 2026
The sudden death of the historian Gordon Wood, 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 ... .
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How Gordon S. Wood Shaped the Idea of America

The New Republic 11 Jun 2026
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.
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Gordon Wood and the Historians Who Told the Real Story of the Founders

Creators Syndicate 11 Jun 2026
The sudden death of the historian Gordon Wood, 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.
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Gordon S. Wood, eminent scholar of the American Revolution, dead at 92

Kokomo Tribune 09 Jun 2026
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 ... .
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Gordon S. Wood, eminent scholar of the American Revolution, dies at 92 after being hit ...

Kokomo Tribune 09 Jun 2026
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 ... .
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Gordon S. Wood, Influential Scholar Of The American Revolution, Dies At 92

Huffington Post 09 Jun 2026
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood has died at 92 ... .
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Gordon Wood on What the Declaration Meant for America

National Review 09 Jun 2026
All men are created equal.’ As the late great historian wrote in NR, ‘No phrase could have been more radical, more momentous.’ ....
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Gordon S. Wood dies leaving a legacy of history | Opinion

The Providence Journal 09 Jun 2026
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.
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Remembering Gordon Wood (NEH - National Endowment for the Humanities)

Public Technologies 09 Jun 2026
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 NEH Acting Chairman William English.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author, American Revolution scholar, Gordon S. Wood dies

WPXI 09 Jun 2026
Gordon S. Wood, who wrote award-winning books such as “The Creation of the American Republic,” has died after being hit by a car in a Rhode Island supermarket parking lot. Wood was 92 years old.
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The Revolutionary Gordon Wood

The Atlantic 09 Jun 2026
That’s the deceptively simple claim to which Gordon Wood, the historian who was tragically killed at the age of 92 on Sunday, devoted his career ... We all need the idea of Gordon Wood.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood dead at 92 after being hit by car

New York Post 09 Jun 2026
“You’re gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, 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).
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