Author, historian, and former Wilson Center scholar Gordon S. Wood has been named one of the National Humanities Medalists for 2010. He accepted the honor at a ceremony at the White House today, where President Obama presented the medals to 10 recipients for achievements in history, literature, education, and culture.
Author, historian, and former Wilson Center scholar Gordon S. Wood has been named one of the National Humanities Medalists for 2010. He accepted the honor at a ceremony at the White House today, where President Obama presented the medals to 10 recipients for achievements in history, literature, education, and culture. Fellow recipients this year include poet Wendell Berry and authors Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, and Roberto González Echevarría.
Wood, a specialist in early United States history, was a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center from 1993 to 1994, and his works have earned honors from the Bancroft Prize, for 1969's The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, to the Pulitzer Prize, for 1993's The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Last year he was nominated for another Pulitzer, for his book Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.
Read more about the National Humanities Medal and all of this year's honorees at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
