| Bernard Bailyn Born: 9-Sep-1922
Birthplace: Hartford, CT
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Father: Charles Manuel Bailyn
Mother: Esther Schloss
Wife: Lotte Lazarsfeld (m. 18-Jun-1952, two sons)
Son: Charles David Bailyn
Son: John Frederick Bailyn
University: AB, Williams College (1945)
University: MA, Harvard University (1947)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1953)
Professor: Harvard University (1953-93)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1963
American Historical Association President (1981)
American Philosophical Society
Massachusetts Historical Society
National Academy of Education
Royal Historical Society
Pulitzer Prize for History 1968 for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Pulitzer Prize for History 1987 for Voyagers to the West
National Humanities Medal 2010
Author of books:
The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century (1955, economics)
Massachusetts Shipping, 1697-1714: A Statistical Study (1959, economics)
Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study (1960, education)
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967, history)
The Origins of American Politics (1968, politics)
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974, biography)
The Great Republic: A History of the American People (1977, history)
The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction (1986, history)
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (1986, history)
Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence (1990, history)
On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions (1994, history)
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders (2003, history)
Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (2005, history)
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: the Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (2012, history)
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