Historian Gordon Wood Dies at 92
Gordon Wood, a longtime Brown University professor and author of multiple books on the American Revolution, died Sunday at age 92. His scholarship argued that the Revolution produced rapid social and political change.
Gordon Wood, a historian at Brown University, died Sunday at age 92. Wood wrote ten books and numerous articles. His 1991 work The Radicalism of the American Revolution won the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Wood maintained that the Revolution transformed American society beyond the replacement of monarchy with a republic. He stated that Americans became, almost overnight, the most liberal, the most democratic, the most commercially minded, and the most modern people in the world.
Wood served as a dissertation adviser and emphasized the study of ideas in early American history. He received the National Humanities Medal and the American Enterprise Institute's Irving Kristol Award. Wood publicly criticized the New York Times 1619 Project, citing factual errors and describing it as perverse and distorted.
