Gordon S. Wood, influential scholar of the American Revolution, dies at 92

Gordon S. Wood, the influential Brown University historian of the American Revolution, died at 92 after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, R.I.
Author of landmark works like The Creation of the American Republic and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, he won major honors (Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer, National Humanities Medal) and profoundly shaped how scholars and students see the founding era.
Widely respected but also controversial — criticized for downplaying the roles of women, enslaved people and Indigenous people and a vocal critic of the 1619 Project — he even turned up in pop culture (name‑checked in Good Will Hunting).