Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. American colonial and revolutionary-era history. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice. In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture. He was a recipient of the 2010 National Humanities Medal. Bailyn devoted much effort 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. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1971.
Background
- Born in
- Hartford
- Educated at
- Williams CollegeHarvard University
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctor of Yale University🏆 honorary doctor of the Dartmouth College🏆 honorary doctorate from Bard College🏆 honorary doctor of Fordham University🏆 honorary doctor of Rutgers University
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Perry Miller
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Gordon S. Wood
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"The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanc…"
"Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, self-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavi…"
"The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred; ..."
"In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on go…"
"What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right."
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1922
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