Pauline Maier

Pauline Maier, born in 1938 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 married to Charles S. Maier, Professor of History at Harvard University. Her father was a firefighter and her mother was a homemaker with five children.

External links

* [http://web.mit.edu/pmaier/www/maier.htm Pauline Maier] MIT homepage.
* [http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-07/nationshistory.html Teaching The Nation's History] Adaptation of a speech delivered to a National Endowment for the Humanities forum.
* [http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9708/maier.html American Scripture] Description of a lecture Maier delivered before the Library of Congress
* [http://www.booknotes.org/Program/?ProgramID=1375 Making the Declaration of Independence] Transcript and streaming audio from interview with Brian Lamb.
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=18716 Random House Biographical Information]
* [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/july97/maier_7-4.html What Was The Declaration Of Independence] Interview with David Gergen.