Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn | |
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| Born | September 9, 1922 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | August 7, 2020 (aged 97) Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Williams College Harvard University |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for History (1968, 1987) Bancroft Prize (1968) |
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| Fields | American history |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Gordon S. Wood, Pauline Maier |
Bernard Bailyn (9 September 1922 – 7 August 2020) was an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953 until his death. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987).
In 1994 he was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea. 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 died of heart failure at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts on August 7, 2020 at the age of 97.