Gordon S. Wood
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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. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
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Born | Gordon Stewart Wood[1] (1933-11-27) November 27, 1933 (age 90) Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Children | 3, including Christopher |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize (1993) Bancroft Prize (1970) National Humanities Medal (2010) |
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Education | Tufts University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Bernard Bailyn |
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Discipline | History |
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