Bailyn’s eminence in the field of early American history was acknowledged by his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963, his appointment as Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1998, and his reception of a National Humanities Medal in 2010. He won another Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America (1986). Bailyn won the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in 1968 for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and the 1975 National Book Award for History with his study of the Loyalist governor of Massachusetts, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974). In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Bailyn transforms the historical interpretation of the Revolution by identifying the ideology that generated “a logic of rebellion” for the colonists. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, published in 1967 by renowned historian and Harvard University professor Bernard Bailyn, is considered the most important book ever written about the American Revolution.
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