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Bernard Bailyn (September 10, 1922 – August 7, 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987). [2]
Two years later, Bailyn published a revised and expanded version of this introduction, entitling it The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Bailyn argued that "the 'progressive' historians of the early twentieth century" dismissed "the Revolutionary leaders' professed fears of 'slavery' and of conspiratorial designs as what by then ...
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution is a 1986 nonfiction book by American historian Bernard Bailyn, published by Knopf. The book chronicles the migration of British farmers into colonial America in the 1770s. [ 1 ]
Before Jefferson embarked for Europe in 1784, Bailyn argued, the "means" of the American Revolution had been "necessarily subordinated to the end of survival, and the most effective ideas were the most ideological, the most universally evocative of idealism and self-sacrifice. In this situation of flux the conflict between self-sufficient ...
Bailyn, Bernard. Voyagers to the West: a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution Knopf 1986, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History; Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (2005). ISBN 978-0-674-01688-0. Bodle, Wayne. "Atlantic History Is the New 'New Social History.'"
In 1953, Bailyn observed that studies of "associations" among "colonial merchants" and "entrepreneurs" as a "social group" contributed to "the movement that led to Revolution." [ 13 ] A year later, Bailyn noted that this "merchant group" had also captured the attentions of 1940s and 1950s "students of business and entrepreneurial history."
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
Bernard Bailyn: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution: Winner David Eisenhower: Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945: Finalist David Garrow: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Finalist 1988: Robert V. Bruce: The Launching of Modern American ...