His writings have earned him the Bancroft Prize and the National Book Award. He holds membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in the British Academy. Bailyn has been Pitt Professor at Cambridge University and president of the American Historical Association. A pioneer in adapting the new tools of social science to the writing of history, he is also a fine literary stylist. Bailyn is particularly adept at interweaving social, intellectual, economic, and political factors into coherent narrative history. An innovative and influential historian of early America, Bernard Bailyn has written quantitative studies of the colonial New England economy, probing examinations of the ideological origins of the American Revolution, and penetrating studies of the social and cultural foundations of American education. For years Bailyn was editor in chief of the Harvard Library and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. During his tenure at Harvard, he was Winthrop Professor, Adams University Professor, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History. in 1953, and he remained there until he retired in 1991. He began his teaching career at Harvard University immediately after the university granted him a Ph.D. Bernard Bailyn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1922, and did his undergraduate work at Williams College.
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