Editor's note: Bernard Bailyn

Humanities | March 1, 1998| | Copyright

By Bernard Bailyn's definition, the study of history is never a science, always a craft-and sometimes an art. Winner of two Pulitzer prizes in history, Bailyn is this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, the highest honor the federal government bestows.

He has been practicing the art and teaching the craft to Harvard students for forty-five years. One of them, Jack Rakove, now a Stanford professor and a Pulitzer Prize-winner himself, writes about "the heady experience" of being in a graduate seminar with Bailyn. "For the first half of the course," he writes, "we were never quite sure ...

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