Bernard Bailyn
American historian (1922–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Bernard Bailyn | |
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Born | (1922-09-09)September 9, 1922 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
Died | August 7, 2020(2020-08-07) (aged 97) Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Spouse | Lotte Bailyn |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | American history |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Doctoral students | Gordon S. Wood, Pauline Maier |
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]