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'''Bernard Bailyn''' (b. [[1922]], [[Hartford, Connecticut]]) is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at [[Harvard University|Harvard]] since 1953, and has won the [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] twice (in [[1968]] and [[1987]]).
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'''Bernard Bailyn''' (b. 1922, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. 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 is best known for promoting studies of [[Republicanism, U.S.|republicanism]] and [[Atlantic History]]. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953, and has won the [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] in 1968 and 1987. He was elected president of the [http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_History/lastname.htm American Historical Association], serving in 1981.


== Education ==
== Education ==
In 1953 Bernard Bailyn earned his [[Ph.D]] from [[Harvard University]], 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.  
In 1953 Bernard Bailyn earned his Ph.D from Harvard University, 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 became a full professor in 1961, and ''professor emeritus'' in 1993. He is currently Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, and director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800,


==History books==
He edited ''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).  
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)
*''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 co-authored ''The Great Republic'' (1977), an American history textbook; and was 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; see [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/bailyn.html]).
He co-authored ''The Great Republic'' (1977), an American history textbook; and was 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; see [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/bailyn.html]).


==Major themes and new ideas==
==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 his most influential work, ''The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'', Bailyn exhibits through a thorough analysis of pre-Revolutionary political pamphlets that the colonists believed that the British were intending on establishing a tyranical state in the colonies that would abridge the historical rights of the colonists. He thus argued that the Revolutionary rhetoric of liberty and freedom was not simply propagandistic but rather central to their understanding of their situation. This evidence was used to displace [[Charles Beard]]'s theory, then the dominant understanding of the American Revolution, that the American Revolution was primary a matter of class warfare and that the rhetoric of liberty was meaningless
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 his most influential work, ''The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'', Bailyn exhibits through a thorough analysis of pre-Revolutionary political pamphlets that the colonists believed that the British were intending on establishing a tyrannical state in the colonies that would abridge the historical rights of the colonists.  He challenged the old "Progressive" view that the rhetoric was of little importance compared to social and economic conflicts. He argued instead that the Revolutionary rhetoric of liberty and freedom was not simply propagandistic but rather central to their understanding of their situation.  


Bailyn argued that [[Republicanism in the United States|republicanism]] was at 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 [[British Whig Party|Whig]] ideas about civic virtue, corruption, ancient rights, rights and fear of autocracy were, in the colonies, transformed into the ideology of republicanism.   
Bailyn argued that [[Republicanism in the United States|republicanism]] was at the core of the values Americans fought for.<ref> He did not at first use the term "republicanism," which historians adopted following the influential 1972 synthesis of scholarship by Robert E. Shalhope, "Toward a Republican Synthesis: The Emergence of an Understanding of Republicanism in American Historiography," ''William and Mary Quarterly'', 29 (Jan. 1972), 49-80 in JSTOR .</ref> He located the intellectual sources of the [[American Revolution]] within a broader British political framework, explaining how English country [[Whig Party, Britain|Whig]] ideas about civic virtue, corruption, ancient rights of Englishmen, and fear of tyranny were, in the colonies, transformed into the ideology of republicanism.  The American Revolution was caused by a conflict of ideas and political values, not social or economic conflicts.   


In recent years Bailyn has promoted social and demographic studies, and especially the emerging topic of the history of the Atlantic world.  Since 1995, Bailyn has organized an annual international seminar at Harvard designed to promote scholarship in this field ([http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/index.html]).
In recent years Bailyn has promoted social and demographic studies, and especially the demographic flows of population int o colonial America. He is a leading advocate of the emerging topic of the history of the Atlantic world.  Since 1995, Bailyn has organized an annual international seminar at Harvard designed to promote scholarship in this field ([http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/index.html]).


==PhD students==
==PhD students==
Former students of Bailyn's include [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners [[Michael Kammen]], [[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''), 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 United States's self-described elite university departments of history.
Former Harvard students of Bailyn's include Pulitzer Prize winners [[Michael Kammen]], [[Jack N. Rakove]] and [[Gordon S. Wood]]. Other notable Bailyn students include [[Gary B. Nash]] (''The Urban Crucible''), [[Michael Zuckerman]] (''Peaceable Kingdoms''), [[Mary Beth Norton]] (''Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800''),  [[Pauline Maier]] (''American Scripture''), [[James Henretta]] (''Families and farms: Mentalite in Pre-Industrial America''), prolific legal historian [[Peter Charles Hoffer]] (''Law and People in Colonial America''), and [[Bancroft Prize]] winners [[Robert Gross]], [[Edward Countryman]], and [[Richard L. Bushman]]. Each of these historians has gone on to train new generation of colonial and Revolutionary specialists in leading graduate departments.
 
==Bibliography==
* 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
 
== Additional books by Bailyn==
* 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 ([http://www.loa.org The Library of America], 1993) ISBN 0-940450-42-9
* 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 ([http://www.loa.org The Library of America], 1993) ISBN 0-940450-64-X
* ''Atlantic history: concept and contours'' Harvard University Press, 2005
* ''Education in the forming of American society; needs and opportunities for study'' Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press 1960
* ''Faces of revolution: personalities and themes in the struggle for American independence'' Knopf 1990.
* ''The Great republic: a history of the American people'' Little, Brown, 1977; coauthored college textbook; severaleditions
* ''The ideological origins of the American Revolution.'' Harvard University Press, 1967.  
* ''Massachusetts shipping, 1697-1714; a statistical study,'' Harvard University Press, 1959.
* ''The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century.'' Harvard University Press, 1955.
* ''The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson.'' Harvard University Press, 1974.
* ''The origins of American politics.'' Knopf, 1968.
* ''Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776,'' edited by Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University Press, 1965
* ''The peopling of British North America: an introduction'' Knopf, 1986.
* ''To begin the world anew: the genius and ambiguities of the American founders'' Knopf 2003
* ''Voyagers to the West: a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution'' Knopf 1986.
 
==External links==
*[http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~atlantic/bailyn.html About Bernard Bailyn] [[Harvard]] biography page.
*[http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/19980323.html "To Begin the World Anew"-Politics and the Creative Imagination] Jefferson lecture to the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]]
*[http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/1998-03/rakove.html Bernard Bailyn: An Appreciation]
*[http://www.frontlist.com/booklist/30583 Bibliography]
*[http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/58.1/bailyn.html Considering the Slave Trade: History and Memory]
*[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/22521.html History News Network]


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Bernard Bailyn (b. 1922, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. 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 is best known for promoting studies of republicanism and Atlantic History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1968 and 1987. He was elected president of the American Historical Association, serving in 1981.

Education

In 1953 Bernard Bailyn earned his Ph.D from Harvard University, 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 became a full professor in 1961, and professor emeritus in 1993. He is currently Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, and director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800,

He edited 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 co-authored The Great Republic (1977), an American history textbook; and was 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; see [1]).

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 his most influential work, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bailyn exhibits through a thorough analysis of pre-Revolutionary political pamphlets that the colonists believed that the British were intending on establishing a tyrannical state in the colonies that would abridge the historical rights of the colonists. He challenged the old "Progressive" view that the rhetoric was of little importance compared to social and economic conflicts. He argued instead that the Revolutionary rhetoric of liberty and freedom was not simply propagandistic but rather central to their understanding of their situation.

Bailyn argued that republicanism was at the core of the values Americans fought for.[1] 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 of Englishmen, and fear of tyranny were, in the colonies, transformed into the ideology of republicanism. The American Revolution was caused by a conflict of ideas and political values, not social or economic conflicts.

In recent years Bailyn has promoted social and demographic studies, and especially the demographic flows of population int o colonial America. He is a leading advocate of the emerging topic of the history of the Atlantic world. Since 1995, Bailyn has organized an annual international seminar at Harvard designed to promote scholarship in this field ([2]).

PhD students

Former Harvard students of Bailyn's include Pulitzer Prize winners Michael Kammen, Jack N. Rakove and Gordon S. Wood. Other notable Bailyn students include Gary B. Nash (The Urban Crucible), Michael Zuckerman (Peaceable Kingdoms), Mary Beth Norton (Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800), Pauline Maier (American Scripture), James Henretta (Families and farms: Mentalite in Pre-Industrial America), prolific legal historian Peter Charles Hoffer (Law and People in Colonial America), and Bancroft Prize winners Robert Gross, Edward Countryman, and Richard L. Bushman. Each of these historians has gone on to train new generation of colonial and Revolutionary specialists in leading graduate departments.

Notes

  1. He did not at first use the term "republicanism," which historians adopted following the influential 1972 synthesis of scholarship by Robert E. Shalhope, "Toward a Republican Synthesis: The Emergence of an Understanding of Republicanism in American Historiography," William and Mary Quarterly, 29 (Jan. 1972), 49-80 in JSTOR .