Entering graduate school at Harvard in 1946, he decided to focus on early America and studied with Samuel Eliot Morison and more closely with Oscar Handlin, pioneering historian of the American immigrant experience. The army sent him for intensive instruction in German and he considered doing further studies in German history. He was an avid reader of European history and literature Thomas Mann remained a favorite author. Productive until the end, he was one of Harvard’s most eminent historians and his work transformed the study of colonial and revolutionary America and of the early modern Atlantic world.īailyn was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut, and attended Williams College, majoring in literature and, after two years in the army, graduating in 1945. At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2021, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Bernard Bailyn, was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.īernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, known to friends and colleagues as “Bud,” died on Aug.
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