Bernard Bailyn
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Bernard Bailyn at Last: Illuminating History December 23, 2020
The American historian Bernard Bailyn, who died of heart failure at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, this summer, was a giant of historical scholarship. After receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1953, Bailyn taught there for nearly a half century un...
Can There Be Another Bernard Bailyn? August 20, 2020
A Fox News poll last month found a remarkable share of Americans under age 30 think the country’s founders are better described as “villains” (31%) than “heroes” (39%). This erosion of a unifying national narrative makes more poignant the death Frida...
