About Gordon Wood

Gordon Wood (1933-2026) was an American historian and professor at Brown University. He was the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 won the 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. He is the author of many other books on the American Revolution and the American Founding and is also the editor of The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764-1776.