Gordon Stewart Wood (November 27, 1933 – June 7, 2026) was an American historian. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was 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.
Wood died on June 7, 2026 at a hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, after he was hit by a car earlier that day, aged 92.
