Wood has taught at Harvard University, the College of William and Mary, the University of Michigan, Brown University, and in 1982–83 was Pitt Professor at Cambridge University. After serving in the United States Air Force in Japan, during which time he earned an AM at Harvard University, he entered the PhD program in history at Harvard, where he studied under Bernard Bailyn, receiving his PhD in 1964. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Tufts University in 1955 and has served as a trustee there. Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and grew up in Worcester and Waltham. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won a 1970 Bancroft Prize. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992).
Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University.
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