Bernard Bailyn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1922, and did his undergraduate work at Williams College. A pioneer in adapting the new tools of social science to the writing of history, he is also a fine literary stylist

Bernard Bailyn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1922, and did his undergraduate work at Williams College. He began his teaching career at Harvard University immediately after the university granted him a P. in 1953, and he remained there until he retired in 1991. During his tenure at Harvard, he was Winthrop Professor, Adams University Professor, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History. A pioneer in adapting the new tools of social science to the writing of history, he is also a fine literary stylist. Bailyn has been Pitt Professor at Cambridge University and president of the American Historical Association.

Start by marking On the Teaching and Writing of History . This pleasant and modest work of about 100 pages contains a series of questions and answers where Bailyn expresses his own thoughts about the craft of history.

Start by marking On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. I came across the book largely because I am a fairly voracious reader of everything I can find written by Bernard Bailyn.

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Historian Bernard Bailyn answers a series of questions about the field of history as well as what the title states, ON THE TEACHING AND WRITING OF HISTORY.

On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions

On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions. Rhetoric in Classical Historiography: Four Studies.

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Bernard Bailyn, On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions, ed. oogle Scholar. 59. Timothy Bahti has an interesting discussion of Hegel and the understanding of history in which he draws on Paul de Man. Timothy Bahti, Allegories of History: Literary Historiography after Hegel (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), 77.

Bernard Bailyn (born September 9, 1922) is an American historian, author, and academic specializing in . Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987). In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture. He was a recipient of the 2010 National Humanities Medal.