What Have We Learned from Pauline Maier?

by Ray Raphael

Maier transformed our understanding of the Constitution.

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....

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

by HNN staff

The cause of death was reportedly lung cancer.