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- Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992). His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won the 1970 Bancroft Prize.
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Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992). His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won the 1970 Bancroft Prize.
May 8, 1999 · Gordon Wood is Professor of History at Brown University. He is one of the foremost scholars on the American Revolution in the country. His book, "The Radicalism of the American Revolution," won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. It is considered among the definitive works on the social, political and economic consequences of the Revolutionary War.
Wood is a prolific author, penning a dozen books on the American Revolution or the early years of the Republic. In 1993, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Wood is a neo-Whig who considers the revolution and American republicanism as progressive, society-changing events.
Gordon S. Wood | The National Endowment for the Humanities. National Humanities Medal. 2010. In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon Wood wrote, “There is a time for understanding the particular, and there is a time for understanding the whole.”
Mar 31, 2016 · We recently interviewed acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood, who edited the collection. Wood is Alva O. Way Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and his books include the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Radicalism of the American Revolution and the Bancroft Prize–winning The Creation of the American Republic 1776–1787.
Jul 22, 2011 · By David Hackett Fischer. July 22, 2011. Gordon S. Wood is more than an American historian. He is almost an American institution. Of all the many teachers and writers of history in this Republic,...
Humanities and Arts. Specialty. History. Elected. 1988. Professor Gordon S. Wood is the lva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Brown in 1969.
