Bernard Bailyn has strongly influenced the study of early American history with his powerful monographs ranging in subject from seventeenth-century New England merchants to the origins of the American Revolution. In his writings, which include...

Perhaps no living historian dominates his field as Bernard Bailyn does the study of colonial and Revolutionary America. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes (for "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution" and "Voyagers to the West"), a National Book Award (for "The Ordeal...

Neologisms are quite the rage in our theory-driven times, and, despite my subject's antipathy toward jargon, I'm going to coin a new word in his honor: Bailynesque. (1) Bailynesque can be defined as a complex and elaborate historical design of intersecting and in...