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Gordon Wood, Long-time Brown History Professor and Preeminent Historian of the American Revolution Dies: A Recollection

By Christian McBurney • American Revolution and Revolutionary War, Biography

On Sunday, June 7, at the Shaw’s supermarket parking lot on Taunton Avenue in East Providence, Professor Gordon Wood was struck by an automobile and seriously injured. He died at …
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Benoni Simmons: Long-Serving Hero of the American Revolution

By John Concannon • Rhode Island - General

The amazing story of Benoni Simmons’s military service in the American Revolution spans some fourteen years, perhaps the longest term of service by anyone in that conflict. More so, his …
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Gordon Wood, Long-time Brown History Professor and Preeminent Historian of the American Revolution Dies: A Recollection

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