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Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard. His most recent books are The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America—The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675 and Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History.  (August 2015)

Thomas Paine advertising his services ‘to any nation or people under heaven who are Desirous of Liberty & Equality’; cartoon by Isaac Cruikshank, 1792

Hot Dreams of Liberty

Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World

by Janet Polasky

August 13, 2015 issue

William III and Mary II, from the Guild Book of Barber Surgeons of York. The portrait
may have celebrated their coronation in 1689 after England’s Glorious Revolution.

How England Became Modern: A Revolutionary View

1688: The First Modern Revolution

by Steve Pincus

November 19, 2009 issue

An American Tragedy

The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities

by Colin G. Calloway

October 5, 1995 issue

Now, Voyager

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