Books by Bernard Bailyn

The brilliance of a master historian shines through this personal account of a lifetime's work.

In a pungent revision of the professional educator's school of history, Bailyn traces the cultural context of education in early American society and the evolution of educational standards in the colonies. His analysis ranges beyond formal education to encompass such vital social determinants as the family, apprenticeship, and organised religion.

Drawing on such source materials as business records, religious and political data, literary remains, and genealogical information, Bailyn has discovered much that is new about the merchants, and has brought it together into a portrait of our economic founding fathers that will reorient our thinking about many aspects of early New England history.

Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples in Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the Caribbean. An introduction surveys British imperial historiography and provides a context for the volume as a whole.

This is a dramatic account of the origins of the American Revolution from the viewpoint, not of the winners who became the Founding Fathers, but of the losers, the Loyalists. By portraying the ordeal of the last civilian royal governor of Massachusetts, Bernard Bailyn explains the human reality against which the victors struggled.

This book provides insights into a past still important today. The authors cover the origins of Harvard and the foundations of its character, structure, and style of governance; the shifting relationships and power struggles among faculty, administration, and students over the years; and the growing diversity of the student body.

Weaving elements of early modern European, African, and American history, Atlantic history embraces essentials of Western civilization, from the first contacts of Europe with the Western Hemisphere to independence movements and the industrial revolution. Bailyn explores the subject's origins, rapid development, and impact on historical study.