Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn (1922-2020) was an American historian renowned for his transformative work on U.S. colonial and revolutionary-era history, most notably The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967) and Voyagers to the West (1986), both Pulitzer Prize winners, as well as The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974, National Book Award). A longtime Harvard professor, he pioneered studies in Atlantic history, republicanism, and migration patterns, earning the National Humanities Medal in 2010 and the Jefferson Lecture in 1998, profoundly influencing generations of scholars.