Gordon S Wood, Pulitzer-prize winning historian, dies after being struck by a car in Rhode Island

Gordon S Wood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, died on Sunday after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in Rhode Island. Wood, aged 92, was crossing the parking lot when the incident occurred, leading to injuries from which he later died. He received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1993 for his book "The Radicalisation of the American Revolution." This seminal work proposed that the American Revolution was driven as much by internal social and political transformations within the colonies as by a desire to sever ties with Great Britain. Wood's scholarship significantly influenced the understanding of the revolutionary period in American history.