Pauline Maier
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Pauline Maier, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A popular scholar of the American Revolution, the preceding era and post-revolutionary America, she holds a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College, 1960, was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics the following year and holds a Phd from Harvard University.
She has published a number of critically acclaimed histories, including From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 (1972), The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams (1980), and The American People: A History (1986).
Before embarking upon her academic career she was a pupil of historian Bernard Bailyn. She currently serves as an academic advisor to the History News Network.
She is the widow of the late William J. Maier Jr., who created the Sarah and Pauline Maier Scholarship Foundation in her name. [1]
[edit] External Links
- Pauline Maier MIT homepage.
- Teaching The Nation's History Adaptation of a speech delivered to a National Endowment for the Humanities forum.
- American Scripture Description of a lecture Maier delivered before the Library of Congress
- Making the Declaration of Independence Transcript and streaming audio from interview with Brian Lamb.
- Random House Biographical Information
- What Was The Declaration Of Independence Interview with David Gergen.
