Professor Bailyn has written comprehensively on American history, covering social,economic,political, and intellectual topics. He and his wife, Lotte Bailyn, professor of management at MIT, live inBelmont, Massachusetts. The formerpresident of the American Historical Association, he is a foreign member of the British Academyand the Mexican Academy of History and Geography in 1994 he was elected to the RussianAcademy of Sciences, the first American historian to be elected to that body since GeorgeBancroft in 1867. He served as editor-in-chief of the John Harvard Library from 1962 to1970, as co-editor of the journal Perspectives in American History, 1967-77, 1984-86,and asDirector of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, 1983-1994. He has taught atHarvard since 1949, becoming Professor in 1961 and Winthrop Professor of History in 1966, aposition he held until 1981, when he became the Adams University Professor, one of Harvard'shighest academic honors. During WorldWar II he served in the Army Signal Corps and in the Army Security Agency. degree fromWilliamsCollege in 1945, and the A.M. Professor Bailyn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and received the A.B. Voyagers to the West also won the Saloutos Award of the Immigration History Societyanddistinguished book awards from the Society of Colonial Wars and the Society of the Cincinnati.
Professor Bailyn won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes (1968) for Ideological Origins oftheAmerican Revolution (1967), the National Book Award in History in 1975 for TheOrdeal ofThomas Hutchinson (1974), and the Pulitzer Prize in History, for Voyagers to theWest (1986). On March23, 1998, he will also deliver the National Endowment for the Humanities' Jefferson Lecture, thehighest honor in the humanities bestowed by the federal government. In his remarks, Professor Bailyn will addresssome of the core American ideas that crystallized during the Revolutionary Era, that have shapedour history thereafter, and that must be preserved as we move into a new millennium. He alsoserves as a Senior Fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows and is the Director of the InternationalSeminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Millinneum Evening with Historian Bernard Bailynīernard Bailyn is the Adams University Professor, Emeritus at Harvard University.
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