Gordon S. Wood

Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. 
Wood won 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.