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Īt the end of his life, Bailyn disclosed that he had "wrote out" an array of possible approaches to history, " republican government," and popular sovereignty in the United States "and buried one of them in a small book on the history of education published in 1960." According to Bailyn, colonial and U.S. The paper evaluated seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century alterations in emigration, settlement, intermarriage, as well as "social and political structures in Virginia" that contributed to "the origins of a new political system." He expounded these contentions in The Origins of American Politics (1967-68). A year later, Bailyn presented a paper on "Politics and Social Structure in Virginia," for a Williamsburg symposium sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. In 1956, critically inspired by George Bancroft, Bailyn challenged the dichotomy between "national self-awareness" and the study of history. In 1952, Bernard Bailyn, then a graduate student in history under Samuel Eliot Morison and Oscar Handlin at Harvard University, began receiving financial and career support from the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History. It is considered one of the most influential studies of the American Revolution published during the 20th century. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning book of history by Bernard Bailyn.
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