
Historian Gordon S. Wood Dies
Historian Gordon S. Wood, who passed away this month, is remembered for his view that republican ideas were held by the elite, while democracy emerged from the social world below them.
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Historian Gordon S. Wood, who passed away this month, is remembered for his view that republican ideas were held by the elite, while democracy emerged from the social world below them.

Gordon S. Wood, a renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution, has died at the age of 92 after being struck by a car in a store parking lot in Rhode Island. His passing marks the loss of an influential scholar in American history.