Gordon S. Wood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian known for his work on the American Revolution, dies at 92 after being struck by a car in Rhode Island. Reports say Wood was hit while crossing a supermarket parking lot in East Providence on Sunday. According to police accounts cited by PBS NewsHour, he dies following the crash. The Guardian reports that Wood later dies of injuries sustained in the incident.
Wood is widely recognized for “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1993. That book advanced the argument that the revolution involved major internal social and political transformation, not only a break from Britain.
The available reporting focuses on the circumstances of his death and his standing in American historical scholarship, without detailing any further investigation or legal outcome related to the crash.
