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For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings,...

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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good ma...

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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new...

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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

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Bernard Bailyn

Historian

Born: 1922-09-09

Died: N/A

Bernard Bailyn (September 9, 1922 – 7 August 2020), was an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard from 1953 and won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice, in 1968 and 1987.More