MIT

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
  11-23-16
  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology invites academe to collaborate on future of libraries

  “I don’t think we need to save libraries, but I do think we might need libraries to save us.” — Chris Bourg, director of libraries at MIT

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• SOURCE: The Daily Princetonian
  2-25-14
  

  MIT professor argues colleges reinforced slavery

  MIT history professor Craig Steven Wilder argued that colleges were responsible for reinforcing slavery in antebellum America.

• SOURCE: MIT News
  8-14-13
  

  MIT obit of Pauline Maier

  The eminent historian Pauline Maier, whose award-winning books cast new light on Revolutionary-era America and the foundations of U.S. democracy, died Aug. 12 in Cambridge, Mass., after a battle with lung cancer. She was 75.Maier, who served as the William Kenan Jr. Professor of History at MIT, had been a member of the Institute’s faculty since 1978. Her work often recast conventional wisdom about 18th-century America, reconstructing long-forgotten public debates over the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution while bringing crucial figures in American political history into sharper focus....

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• Pauline Maier, Distinguished Historian of the American Revolution, Dies at 75

  by HNN staff

  The cause of death was reportedly lung cancer.

• SOURCE: LiveScience
  5-28-13
  

  Medieval readers had eclectic tastes

  Nowadays, people bounce effortlessly from reading news to blogs to email. And it turns out the reading habits of people in medieval times weren't so different, a new book suggests.People in 14th-century London consumed a variety of texts, often linked together in bound volumes. Arthur Bahr, a literature professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explores these habits in his new book "Fragments and Assemblages" (University of Chicago Press, 2013).