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Program in Science,
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Pauline Maier
Professor Maier received her B.A. in American History and
Literature at Radcliffe College (1960) and her Ph.D. in History
from Harvard University (1968). She has taught at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
and served as the Cardozo Visiting Professor of History at
Yale.
Her research is primarily concerned with the American Revolution
and its impact. She is the author of From Resistance to Revolution:
Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Resistance to
Britain (Knopf, 1972); The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in
the Age of Samuel Adams (Knopf, 1980); The American People: A
History (a junior-high-school textbook; D.C. Heath and Co., 1985),
and American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
(Knopf, 1997), which was on the New York Times Book Review editors'
list of the best eleven books, fiction and nonfiction, of 1997, and
nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle Award in
nonfiction.
More recently she wrote the first eight chapters, spanning the
period from the first human habitation of the Americas to the
inauguration of Thomas Jefferson, for a new AAmerican History
textbook, Inventing America (W.W. Norton and Co., 2002). She also
contributed to several historical television series both for the
History Channel and PBS, including "Liberty! The American
Revolution" and "The Biography of America," and is beginning work
on a book about the ratification of the federal Constitution that
is under contract to Simon and Schuster.
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