Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Who Inspired the Clintons and Was Honored by Obama Fatally Struck by Car in Rhode Island Parking Lot
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian was fatally hit by a car in the parking lot of a Rhode Island grocery store on Sunday. Gordon Wood professor of history emeritus, Brown University, and author of The Creation of the American Republic, Radicalism of the American Revolution, was hit by a car in Shaw’s parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island. He was 92 years old. In 2011,