A revolutionary historian

We continue our debut of essays and reviews from the just-published spring issue of the Claremont Review of Books with an overview of the career of Harvard Professor Bernard Bailyn by Hans Eicholz: “A revolutionary historian.” Bailyn is best known as the author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Eicholz provides an excellent introduction to Bailyn’s scholarship and its relationship to developments in the study of the political thought of the founding era.