Gordon S. Wood died on June 8, 2026, at the age of 92 after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in Rhode Island. According to the Guardian, he died from injuries sustained in the incident. Wood authored ten books on the Founding era, including The Creation of the American Republic and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which advanced the theory that the break with Britain was as much an internal social and political transformation as a desire to end colonial rule. According to neh.gov, he was a professor emeritus of history at Brown University, where he taught from 1969 to 2008, and was awarded the National Humanities Medal.