Bernard Bailyn
Born	(1922-09-09)September 9, 1922 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	August 7, 2020(2020-08-07) (aged 97) Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Williams College Harvard University
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for History (1968, 1987) Bancroft Prize (1968)
Scientific career
Fields	American history
Institutions	Harvard University
Doctoral students	Gordon S. Wood, Pauline Maier

Bernard Bailyn (9 September 1922 – 7 August 2020) was an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953 until his death. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987).^[1]

In 1994 he was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea.^[2] In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture.^[3] He was a recipient of the 2010 National Humanities Medal.

Bailyn died of heart failure at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts on August 7, 2020 at the age of 97.^[4]

• "To Begin the World Anew"-Politics and the Creative Imagination Archived 2006-11-07 at the Wayback Machine Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Bernard Bailyn: An Appreciation Archived 2006-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Considering the Slave Trade: History and Memory^{[permanent dead link]}
• History News Network Archived 2006-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Booknotes interview with Bailyn on To Begin the World Anew, March 23, 2003. Archived November 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
• "Into the Wilderness: ‘The Barbarous Years,’ by Bernard Bailyn", Charles C. Mann, The New York Times, 4 January 2013

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