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Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor Emeritus of History at Brown University. He received his B.A. from Tufts University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Wood taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan before joining Brown's faculty in 1969. He is an acclaimed author known for his works including 'The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787,' which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and 'Radicalism of the American Revolution,' which received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1993. His other notable publications include 'Americanization of Benjamin Franklin' and 'Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different.' Wood has received numerous awards, such as the National Humanities Medal from President Obama and the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award from the Society of American Historians. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Currently, he is completing a volume for the Oxford History of the United States that addresses the early Republic period from 1789 to 1815.
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