Bernard Bailyn

Constitution and in the midst of the crisis of nullification, James Madison reaffirmed the centrality of federalism while writing the preface to what would become his “Notes on the Federal Convention”. The federal system certainly was important to James Madison and his contemporaries, and it has been important to succeeding generations of Americans who lived their lives and struggled with collective issues and concerns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Numerous ideas on government…

Throughout the course of American history, the cause of the Revolutionary war has been highly debated. Although the Americans blame the war on the British, and the need for independence, British historians have focused blame on the american colonists. The specific causes, and the importance of each cause have varied between historians. Although some blame the legislation of the British, other historians find west ward expansion to be the leading cause. During the evolution study of the…

Bernard Bailyn is a historian who stated in his book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution that, "The colonists believed they saw a clear pattern in the events that followed 1763." In other words, the colonists believed that they saw evidence of…

Christian Hegemony During the 19th Century During the beginning of the 17th century, a great dichotomy existed in North America between the incoming European colonists and the local Native Americans. The rippling effects of this clash of cultures are still evident today, serving as a clear demonstration of how each culture was drastically impacted by the discovery of one another. The painting Baptism of Pocahontas, painted by John Gadsby Chapman in 1839, is shown as Figure 1. Chapman captured…