Pauline Maier 
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12-9-13
What Have We Learned from Pauline Maier?
by Ray Raphael
Maier transformed our understanding of the Constitution.
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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.
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