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Bernard Bailyn (1922 — ) is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial History. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1953, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987). Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ...
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Education Bailyn was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1922. In 1953 he earned his Ph.D. from Harvard, and has been associated with the University ever since. As a graduate student at Harvard, Bailyn studied under Perry Miller, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Oscar Handlin. He was made a full professor in 1961, and professor emeritus in 1993. Flag Seal Nickname: The Insurance Capital of the World Location Location in Hartford County, Connecticut Coordinates , Government Counties Hartford County Mayor Eddie Perez Geographical characteristics Area City 18. ...
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Cover of Millers Errand into the Wilderness Perry Miller (1905-1963) was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. ...
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History books Bernard Bailyn is the author of The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century (1955); Massachusetts Shipping, 1697-1714 (with Lotte Bailyn 1959); Education in the Forming of American Society (1960); The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in 1968; The Origins of American Politics (1968); The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974), which was awarded the National Book Award in History in 1975; The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction (1986); Voyagers to the West (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Saloutos Award of the Immigration History Society, and distinguished book awards from the Society of Colonial Wars and the Society of the Cincinnati; Faces of Revolution (1990), On the Teaching and Writing of History (1994), To Begin the World Anew (2003), and Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (2005). He is also the editor of Pamphlets of the American Revolution, the first volume of which, published in 1965, was awarded the Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for that year, and editor of The Apologia of Robert Keayne (1965) and the two-volume Debate on the Constitution (1993). He is a co-author of The Great Republic (1977), an American history textbook; and co-editor of The Intellectual Migration, Europe and America, 1930-1960 (1969), Law in American History (1972), The Press and the American Revolution (1980), and Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire (1991).(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/bailyn.html) The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ...
The Bancroft Prize was established in 1948 with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft and is awarded by Columbia University for books about diplomacy or about the history of the Americas which were first published the year before. ...
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Major themes and new ideas He is known for meticulous research and for interpretations that sometimes challenge the conventional wisdom, especially those dealing with the causes and effects of the American Revolution. In particular, he identified republicanism as the core of the values Americans fought for. He located the intellectual sources of the American Revolution within a broader British political framework, explaining how English country Whig ideas about civic virtue, corruption, ancient rights, rights and fear of autocracy were, in the colonies, transformed into the ideology of republicanism. Bailyn is most recently known for his contributions to the field of Atlantic world history. Since 1995, Bailyn has organized an annual international seminar at Harvard designed to promote scholarship in this field. The American Revolution was an upheaval that ended British control of middle North America, resulting in the formation of the United States of America in 1776. ...
Republicanism is the idea of a nation being governed as a republic. ...
The American Revolution was an upheaval that ended British control of middle North America, resulting in the formation of the United States of America in 1776. ...
While the Whigs (along with the Tories) are often described as one of the two political parties in late 17th to mid 19th century Great Britain, it is more accurate to describe them as loose political groupings or tendencies. ...
PhD students Former students of Bailyn's include Pulitzer Prize winners Jack N. Rakove and Gordon S. Wood as well as Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Beth Norton. Other notable Bailyn students include Gary B. Nash (The Urban Crucible), Michael Zuckerman (Peaceable Kingdoms), Pauline Maier (American Scripture), James Henretta (Families and farms: Mentalite in Pre-Industrial America), Michael Kammen (The Mystic Chords of Memory), the prolific legal historian, Peter Charles Hoffer (Law and People in Colonial America, among numerous others), and Bancroft Prize winners Robert Gross, Edward Countryman, and Richard L. Bushman. Each of these historians has gone on to train a new generation of colonial American historians in the nation's elite university departments of history. The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ...
Jack Rakove (1947 –) is the W.R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science at Stanford University where he has taught since 1980. ...
Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. ...
The Bancroft Prize was established in 1948 with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft and is awarded by Columbia University for books about diplomacy or about the history of the Americas which were first published the year before. ...
Reference Jack N. Rakove, "Bernard Bailyn" in Robert Allen Rutland, ed. "Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945-2000" U of Missouri Press. (2000) pp 5-22
Bibliography - Bailyn, Bernard, ed. The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle for Ratification. Part One: September 1787 to February 1788 (The Library of America, 1993) ISBN 0940450429
- Bailyn, Bernard, ed. The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle for Ratification. Part Two: January to August 1788 (The Library of America, 1993) ISBN 094045064X
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