Gordon S. Wood

Gordon S. Wood (born 1933) is an American historian renowned for his works on the American Revolution, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992) and the Bancroft Prize-winning The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969). He has also received the National Humanities Medal in 2010 and authored influential books like Empire of Liberty (2009).