W Bernard Bailyn entered graduate school in 1946, studies of New England dominated the field of early American history, many of them produced by Harvard-trained scholars. Two of his teachers, Samuel Eliot Morison and Oscar Handlin, wrote their own—albeit very different—dissertations on Boston.1 Harvard students knew there were practical advantages in choosing a New England topic, since they could find abundant manuscript materials in nearby archives and Widener Library contained nearly any published work they might need.2 Thus Bailyn’s decision to focus his own dissertation on New England hardly seems surprising. Yet the long-range consequences of his choice were anything but predictable. Bailyn’s later prize-winning scholarship on the Revolution and immigration has overshadowed The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century, the book based on his dissertation.3 This comparative neglect is unfortunate,
W Bernard Bailyn于1946年进入研究生院,对新英格兰的研究主导了美国早期历史领域,其中许多研究是由哈佛大学培养的学者提出的。他的两位老师Samuel Eliot Morison和Oscar Handlin写了他们自己的关于波士顿的论文,尽管非常不同。1哈佛学生知道选择新英格兰主题有实际优势,因为他们可以在附近的档案馆找到丰富的手稿材料,而Widener图书馆几乎包含了他们可能需要的任何出版作品。2因此,Bailyn决定将自己的论文重点放在新英格兰上似乎并不奇怪。然而,他的选择所带来的长期后果绝非可预测。Bailyn后来获得的关于革命和移民的奖学金盖过了以他的论文为基础的《十七世纪的新英格兰商人》一书。3这种相对忽视是不幸的,
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peripheral, adj . (def. 2): . . .marginal, not of direct concern. Oxford English Dictionary.
外围的;(释义2):不重要的,不直接有关的。牛津英语词典。
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I his 2019 memoir Illuminating History, Bernard Bailyn shared a story about entering the PhD program at Harvard. Fresh from service in the army, where he and countless others of his generation witnessed the unparalleled attack on the Enlightenment ideals that had ushered a liberal Europe into existence, he decided to study history. As it turned out, the army had assigned him to learn German in anticipation of the post-war reorganization and occupation of Europe. Bailyn’s linguistic training and immersion in German led him, not surprisingly, into European history, especially the history of Germany. But after the war, when he arrived at Harvard, his interests had shifted. He had become fascinated with understanding the relationship between ideas and lived experience and to “exploring the connections between America and Europe, in whatever sphere.” Bailyn had settled on the early modern era where, he wrote, “one could see the connections between a distant past and an emerging modernity.” The question that drove him first into early American history became a lifelong quest. As he put it, during his career he examined individuals and documents that revealed “vital encapsulations of what would become major developments in the emergence of modernity.”1 Fair enough, as Bailyn might have put it. This was the kind of large problem historians should pursue, a point he made early in his career in his provocative essay on the limitations of Fernand Braudel’s study of the Mediterranean in the sixteenth
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E NOTE: At the memorial service for Pauline Maier, William Kenan Jr. Professor of History at MIT, Bernard Bailyn’s eulogy for his former graduate student revealed his engagement as an adviser while displaying his keen appreciation of Pauline Maier’s intellectual temperament. Maier, who had once served as Bailyn’s “grader,” went on to become one of the foremost scholars of Revolutionary America. Her first book, From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765– 1776 (1972), grew out of her dissertation. The studies that followed—The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams (1980), American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997), and Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution (2010)—won critical acclaim and prestigious awards for Maier’s fresh research and literary craftsmanship. She was the first professor of early American history at the University of Massachusetts Boston and taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, before going to MIT in 1978. Always a dedicated teacher, Maier also wrote American history textbooks for college and middle school students.
注:在麻省理工学院历史教授小威廉·凯南(William Kenan Jr.)波琳·迈尔(Pauline Maier)的追悼会上,伯纳德·拜伦(Bernard Bailyn)为他的前研究生写的悼词透露了他作为顾问的身份,同时也表达了他对波琳·迈尔(Pauline Maier)的智力气质的深刻欣赏。迈尔曾经是拜林的“评分员”,后来成为美国革命时期最重要的学者之一。她的第一本书《从抵抗到革命:1765 - 1776年殖民地激进派和美国反英运动的发展》(1972)是她的论文的灵感来源。随后的研究——《老革命者:塞缪尔·亚当斯时代的政治生活》(1980年)、《美国圣经:制定独立宣言》(1997年)和《批准:人民辩论宪法》(2010年)——都因梅尔的新研究和文学技巧赢得了评论界的赞誉和著名奖项。她是马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校(University of Massachusetts Boston)首位美国早期历史教授,并在威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校(University of Wisconsin, Madison)任教,1978年前往麻省理工学院(MIT)。梅尔一直是一名敬业的教师,他还为大学生和中学生编写美国历史教科书。
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{"title":"Illuminating How Bud Wrote","authors":"L. Bailyn","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00958","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"95 1","pages":"556-558"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43011911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
1958 Jurgen Herbst, “Nineteenth century German scholarship in America: A Study of Five German-trained Social Scientists” 1958 S. Alexander Rippa, “Organized Business and Public Education: the Educational Policies and Activities of the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers 1933–1956” 1958 David B. Tyack, “Gentleman of Letters: A Study of George Ticknor” 1959 Richard M. Brown, “The South Carolina Regulators” 1960 Jerome W. Jones, “The Anglican Church in Colonial Virginia, 1690–1760” 1961 Thomas C. Barrow, “The Colonial Customs Service, 1660– 1775” 1961 Richard L. Bushman, “Government and Society in Connecticut, 1690–1760” 1961 Stanley N. Katz, “An easie access: Anglo-American Politics in New York, 1732–1753” 1961 Theodore R. Sizer, “The Committee of Ten” 1962 Richard V. Buel, “Studies in the Political Ideas of the American Revolution, 1760-1776” 1962 Thomas J. Condon, “The Commercial Origins of New Netherland” 1963 Mary A. Connolly, “The Boston Schools in the New Republic, 1776–1840” 1963 Jonathan C. Messerli, “Horace Mann: The Early Years, 1796–1837”
1958年Jurgen Herbst,“十九世纪德国在美国的学术:对五位德国培养的社会科学家的研究”,1958年S.Alexander Rippa,“有组织的商业和公共教育:商会和全国制造商协会的教育政策和活动1933-1956”,1958 David B.Tyack,《文士:乔治·蒂克诺研究》1959年理查德·M·布朗,《南卡罗来纳州监管机构》1960年杰罗姆·W·琼斯,《弗吉尼亚殖民地的圣公会,1690–1760》1961年托马斯·C·巴罗,《殖民地海关总署,1660–1775》1961年理查德·L·布什曼,《康涅狄格州的政府和社会,1690-1760》,“一个简单的途径:纽约的英美政治,1732-1753”1961年西奥多·R·西泽,“十人委员会”1962年理查德·V·布尔,“美国革命政治思想研究,1760-1776”1962年托马斯·J·康登,“新荷兰的商业起源”1963年玛丽·A·康诺利,“新共和国的波士顿学校,1776-1840”1963年乔纳森·C·梅塞利,霍勒斯·曼:《早年》,1796-1837年
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{"title":"Bernard Bailyn on the Craft and Art of Historical Writing","authors":"F. Anderson","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00947","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"95 1","pages":"298-333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47226971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B Bailyn taught Harvard’s introductory graduate research seminar in Early American History for the last time in the fall term of academic year 1992–1993, at the close of which he retired in compliance with Harvard’s thenmandatory policy. The following September he returned to teach an expanded version of the course, reworked as a general introduction to historical methods, under a new rubric. He would offer that seminar every fall term from 1993 through 1999, before he stopped (at age seventy-seven) to concentrate on administering and teaching The International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, the highly successful, influential post-doctoral summer institute that he launched in 1997 and superintended through 2010. Graduate courses in historical method had not customarily been taught at Harvard, where the two research seminars required of all first-year students had been thought a sufficient introduction to professional research and writing. These had varied greatly in approach and content, however, and when the English historian Mark Kishlansky became History’s director of graduate studies, he proposed a common introductory methods seminar as part of a general reform in the curriculum. Such
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T poem that John just read makes two striking appearances in Professor Bailyn’s most important book, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. It appears in full in the opening section and is quoted again in the final paragraph of the Postscript that he added to the twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition of 1992. Bud called this Postscript, “Fulfillment: A Commentary on the Constitution.” In it he argued that the constitutional arguments of the late 1780s had indeed “corrected the cave—enlarged its dimensions, reshaped it, modernized it.” And we also “may weave and flitter, dip and soar in perfect courses through the blackest air. In that spirit we too—in the very happiest intellection—may continue to correct the cave.” This is a striking metaphor for the debates that Bud had examined so carefully. But it is also a strange and surprising image to insert here. He must have put it there for some other purpose. When Bud alludes to “the very happiest intellection” in that final sentence, he was illuminating his own remarkable creativity as a historian just as much as he was describing the events of the Revolution. I want to use my few minutes here this afternoon to muse about the creativity that made Professor Bailyn the most brilliant, influential, and intellectually cosmopolitan American historian of the past century, and also our field’s greatest narrative artist. My starting point for this discussion was his research seminar, which was a transformative experience for so many of
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