Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn speaks at Brown University in June 2012
Bailyn in 2012
Born(1922-09-09)September 9, 1922
DiedAugust 7, 2020(2020-08-07) (aged 97)
Alma mater
SpouseLotte Bailyn
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsAmerican history
InstitutionsHarvard University
Doctoral studentsGordon S. Wood, Pauline Maier

Bernard Bailyn (September 10, 1922 – August 7, 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987).[2] In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture.[3] He was a recipient of the 2010 National Humanities Medal.

He specialized in American colonial and revolutionary-era history, looking at merchants, demographic trends, Loyalists, international links across the Atlantic, and especially the political ideas that motivated the Patriots. He was best known for studies of republicanism and Atlantic history that transformed the scholarship in those fields.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963[5] and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1971.[6]

  1. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  2. ^ "History". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  3. ^ Jefferson Lecturers Archived October 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at NEH Website (retrieved January 22, 2009).
  4. ^ Jack N. Rakove, "Bernard Bailyn" in Robert Allen Rutland, ed. "Clio's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945–2000" (2000) pp 5–22
  5. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
  6. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved August 25, 2022.

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