Condolences and tributes poured in on Monday for Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood after the revered expert on the American Revolution was hit and killed by a motor vehicle in a Rhode Island parking lot on Sunday.
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Wood died after being hit by a car in a parking lot in East Providence on Sunday. “You had the feeling that you were in the presence of an Olympian,” said fellow historian Ted Widmer.
