#  Bernard Bailyn 

 

 



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 Professor Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor, *Emeritus*, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, *Emeritus*, died on Friday, August 7, 2020. Professor Bailyn joined the faculty in 1954, served as Department chair 1970-72, became *emeritus* in 1993, and maintained a full research agenda thereafter, including organizing the Atlantic seminar 1995-2010. His most recent book, *Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades*, appeared in April 2020. He was a beloved colleague, advisor, and teacher, and will be sorely missed.  
  
[Bibliography of Published Works by Bernard Bailyn](/file_url/3135)  
  
[Harvard University Memorial Minute](https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/display/secfas/Memorial%20Minutes?utm_source=aws&utm_medium=secfas&utm_campaign=redirect_analysis&preview=/216662529/266266412/Bailyn%20Memorial%20Minute.pdf)  
[*New York Times* Obituary](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/books/bernard-bailyn-dead.html)  
[*Washington Post* Obituary](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bernard-bailyn-historian-who-reinterpreted-the-american-revolution-dies-at-97/2020/08/07/babbcb6c-d8fa-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html)  
[*Boston Globe* Obituary](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/07/metro/bernard-bailyn-dies-97-his-research-changed-how-scholars-view-american-revolution/)  
[*Harvard Gazette* Obituary](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/eminent-historian-bernard-bailyn-dies-at-97/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020200812%20(1))  
[*The Docket* (*Law and History Review*) Tribute](https://lawandhistoryreview.org/)  
[Colonial Society of Massachusetts Remembrance](https://www.colonialsociety.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/CSM%202020%20Newsletter%20(7).pdf) (p. 3)  
  
The *New England Quarterly* is raising funds to name the editorship of the journal in Professor Bailyn's honor. Please [click here](/file_url/3049) for more details. The journal also recently [announced](https://nequarterly.wordpress.com/2022/09/21/volume-95-3-september-2022/) a tribute to Professor Bailyn, and covered his work in a [recent issue](https://direct.mit.edu/tneq/issue/91/1).



 

 

 





 

 

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