Bernard Bailyn - Ph.D. Students

Ph.D. Students

Former students of Bailyn include Pulitzer Prize winners Michael Kammen, Jack N. Rakove and Gordon S. Wood as well as Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Beth Norton. Other notable Bailyn students include:

• Peter H. Wood (Black Majority);
• Michael Zuckerman (Peaceable Kingdoms);
• Pauline Maier (American Scripture on the Declaration and Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, winner of the 2011 George Washington Book Prize and the Fraunces Tavern Book Prize);
• James Henretta (Families and farms: Mentalite in Pre-Industrial America);
• Stanley N. Katz (Newcastle's New York);
• prolific legal historian Peter Charles Hoffer (Law and People in Colonial America, among others);
• William E. Nelson, legal and constitutional historian and Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, author of The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine (1988), winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize of the American Historical Association, and many other books];
• Fred Anderson (Crucible of War and A People's Army);
• Virginia DeJohn Anderson (Creatures of Empire);
• Bancroft Prize winner Richard L. Bushman (From Puritan to Yankee).
• Sally E. Hadden (Slave Patrols)
• Philip J. Greven (The Protestant Temperament, Spare the Child)

Many of these historians have gone on to train a new generation of American historians; others have branched out into fields as diverse as law and the history of science.