Gordon S. Wood
Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution
About the Author
History professor and award-winning author Gordon S. Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts on November 27, 1933. After graduating in 1955 from Tufts University he served in the US Air Force in Japan and earned his master's degree from Harvard University. In 1964, Wood earned his Ph. D. in history show more from Harvard, and he taught there, as well as at the College of William and Mary and the University of Michigan, before joining the Brown University faculty in 1969. Wood has published a number of articles and books, including The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. He has won many other awards in the past five decades from organizations such as the American Historical Association, the New York Historical Society, and the Fraunces Tavern Museum. Wood is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. In 2014, his book, The American Revolution: A History, was on the New York Times bestseller list. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Gordon S. Wood
The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764-1772: (Library of America #265) (2013) — Editor — 91 copies
The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1773-1776: (Library of America #266) (2015) — Editor — 79 copies
Associated Works
Common Sense: and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) (2003) — Editor, some editions — 125 copies
Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity (1987) — Contributor — 59 copies
The Transformation of Early American History: Society, Authority and Ideology (1991) — Contributor — 35 copies
The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures: The First Twenty Years (2006) — Contributor — 8 copies
The William and Mary Quarterly, July 1987: Constitution of the United States — Contributor — 2 copies
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 44, Number 3 (Fall 2011) (2011) — Contributor — 1 copy
Journal of the Early Republic: Summer 1996 Vol.16, No.2 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Wood, Gordon S.
- Legal name
- Wood, Gordon Stewart
- Birthdate
- 1933-11-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Concord, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Waltham, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Tufts University (BA | 1955)
Harvard University (AM | Ph. D | History | 1964) - Occupations
- professor
historian - Relationships
- Goss, Louise (wife)
Wood, Christopher S. (son)
Wood, Elizabeth (daughter)
Wood, Amy Louise (daughter) - Organizations
- Brown University
Harvard University
College of William and Mary
University of Michigan
Cambridge University
One Day University (show all 7)
United States Air Force - Awards and honors
- National Humanities Medal (2010)
Pulitzer Prize for History (1993)
Bancroft Prize (1970)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988)
American Philosophical Society (1994) - Short biography
- Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933 in Concord, Massachusetts) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University, and the 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 a 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Gordon S. Woods in Wikipedia
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