Bernard Bailyn To Receive Honorary Degree
At Summer Commencement Ceremony

March 21, 2003
Hershey, Pa. – The Board of Trustees today (March 21) approved the granting of the honorary doctorate of humane letters to Bernard Bailyn at a commencement ceremony this August.

            Bailyn is a distinguished historian of American history and the Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History emeritus at Harvard University.

            Also a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his books Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Voyagers to the West, BailynÕs historical work centers on early American history, the American Revolution and the Anglo-American world in the pre-industrial era.

            In February 1998, Bailyn presented the first Millennium Evening at the White House and in March 1998, he was awarded the nation's highest honor in the humanities   the the Jefferson Medal of the National Endowment.

            Bailyn received his A.B. from Williams College, and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Education.

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Contact: Allison Kessler, Department of Public Information, (814) 865-7517 or akessler@psu.edu.