Bernard Bailyn

1922 - 2020

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Williams College, Harvard University

occupation: writer, historian of Modern Age, historian, university teacher

award received: National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, Harvard Centennial Medal, Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer Prize for History, Jefferson Lecture, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of Fordham University, honorary doctorate from Bard College, honorary doctor of the Clark University, honorary doctor of the Yale University, honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin, honorary doctor of the Dartmouth College, honorary doctor of the University of Chicago, honorary doctorate from Columbia University, honorary doctor of Rutgers University, Henry Allen Moe Prize

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). In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture. 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. 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)