Gordon Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of American Revolution, dies at 92

Police say Wood died Sunday after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island.

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Police say Wood died Sunday after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island.

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