Other influential books authored by Bailyn include The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century (1955), an innovative collective biography that examined the changing structure of colonial authority Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study (1960), which emphasized the educational role of the family in early America and The Origins of American Politics (1968), which explained the colonial political background that shaped colonists’ receptivity to radical Whig or Commonwealth ideas. As the COVID-19 pandemic, a presidential election and social justice protests dovetailed to make 2020 one of the most significant inflection points in American history, two-time History Prize winner and disciplinary luminary Bernard Bailyn succumbed to heart failure at his home in suburban Belmont, Mass. Bailyn won the 1975 National Book Award for History with his study of the Loyalist governor of Massachusetts, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974). Bailyn won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice: once in 1968 for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), which transformed the historical interpretation of the American Revolution, and again in 1987 for Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America (1986), which expanded the knowledge of immigration in colonial America by utilizing quantitative analysis. Bernard Bailyn (1922-2020) was a towering figure in the study of the colonial and revolutionary periods in American history.
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