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History nerds: some supposedly important historian named Bernard Bailyn died today
Posted on 8/7/20 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 8/7/20 at 3:44 pm
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Seeing academics on the twitterz pay their respects, so I guess he is a big figure
Bernard Bailyn (9 September 1922 - 7 August 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987)
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Posted on 8/7/20 at 3:57 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987)
Without knowing more details, I’ll assume:
1968 - impressive
1987 - probably still impressive, but getting close to the cutoff
Posted on 8/7/20 at 4:01 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Bernard Bailyn (9 September 1922 - 7 August 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History.
He's going to have his entire career wiped from Harvard unless his work was about the evils of America
Posted on 8/7/20 at 4:07 pm to upgrayedd
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unless his work was about the evils of America
It wasn't.
Ideological Origins of the American Revolution was probably his most famous work and was a response to Charles Beard's class warfare based Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States which essentially arguing that the revolution was a ruse for the Founding Fathers to maintain (and expand) their economic standing
This post was edited on 8/7/20 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 8/7/20 at 4:19 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I just looked him up and some of his books look really interesting
Posted on 8/7/20 at 4:23 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
His writings and those of one of his doctoral students, Gordon S. Wood are regularly used in classes on the American Revolution and Early American history.
I've read several of Wood's books. He became nearly as much of an authority as his teacher.
I've read several of Wood's books. He became nearly as much of an authority as his teacher.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 4:41 pm to LegendInMyMind
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His writings and those of one of his doctoral students, Gordon S. Wood are regularly used in classes on the American Revolution and Early American history.
That's gonna last until next year; you're gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin' about, you know, the pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.
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