American Revolution historian Gordon Wood dies at 92 (opens in new tab)

Gordon S. Wood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution and professor emeritus at Brown University, died Sunday at 92 after a car hit him in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island, police said. Police said officers responded to Shaw's Supermarket on Taunton Avenue after 911 calls reported that a pedestrian had been hit; Wood was taken to Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries and later died. Wood wrote dozens of books and essays on the nation's f...