Bernard Bailyn

American historian at Harvard who won two Pulitzer Prizes — The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Voyagers to the West — and who fundamentally transformed understanding of the American Revolution by demonstrating the centrality of the republican tradition (Country ideology) in Revolutionary thought.

Demonstrated that the American Revolution was primarily an ideological event — The Ideological Origins shows that the Founders were not naive liberals but bearers of a specific English republican tradition (Country ideology vs. Court) that interpreted British taxation as evidence of a conspiracy against liberty.