Awards & Winners

Bernard Bailyn

Date of Birth 09-September-1922
Place of Birth Hartford
(United States of America, Connecticut, Hartford County, Area code 959, Area code 860, Area codes 860 and 959)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Historian, Author, Professor, Writer
Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor 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 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture. He was a recipient of the 2010 National Humanities Medal. He has specialized in American colonial and revolutionary-era history, looking at merchants, demographic trends, Loyalists, international links across the Atlantic, and especially the political ideas that motivated the Patriots. He is best known for studies of republicanism and Atlantic history that transformed the scholarship in those fields. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963.

Awards by Bernard Bailyn

Check all the awards nominated and won by Bernard Bailyn.

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for History The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

1987


Pulitzer Prize for History
Honored for : Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for History Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

1975


National Book Award for History
Honored for : The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for History The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

1968


Bancroft Prize
Honored for : The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Pulitzer Prize for History
Honored for : The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution