1. Pauline Alice Maier was a revisionist historian of the American Revolution, whose work addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War.
31 Facts About Pauline Maier
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Pauline Maier was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught undergraduates.
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Pauline Maier appeared on Charlie Rose, C-SPAN2's In Depth and wrote for The New York Times review pages for 20 years.
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Pauline Maier was the 2011 President of the Society of American Historians.
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Pauline Maier died in 2013 from lung cancer at the age of 75.
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Pauline Maier's father was a firefighter and her mother was a homemaker with five children.
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Pauline Maier was a writer on The Harvard Crimson and worked summers at the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts.
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Pauline Maier graduated from Radcliffe in 1960 with a bachelor's degree in history and literature.
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Pauline Maier pursued gardening and cooking at the family weekend home.
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Pauline Maier's career included various appointments in five prestigious universities, and numerous fellowships and awards.
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Pauline Maier chaired a university-wide committee at MIT in 1985 to reorganize its humanities schools and broaden and structure its programs.
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In 1998, Pauline Maier was elected as a History Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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In 2010, Pauline Maier became one of two women honorary members of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts since 1947.
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Pauline Maier was the 2011 President of the Society of American Historians, an affiliate of the American Historical Association.
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Pauline Maier's writing is characterized as serious and unadorned, with a crossover appeal from scholars to intelligent readers who enjoy a well-told story of well-researched scholarly history.
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In Ratification, Pauline Maier attributed her storytelling ability to Barbara Tuchman's insight that the writer can build suspense by never acknowledging a development until the characters in the narrative could know it.
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Pauline Maier won fellowships to write curriculum for college courses and high school teachers.
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Pauline Maier believed that the interest in American history was not tapped in the curriculum of many states.
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Pauline Maier's scholarship belongs to the "Neo-Whig" school of historiography founded by Bernard Bailyn in reaction to the "Progressive" historians.
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Pauline Maier's work is likened to that of Gordon S Wood and Edmund S Morgan.
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Pauline Maier contributed to the wider sensibility with her article "Popular Uprisings in 18th Century America" in the William and Mary Quarterly, featured in a reissue of their 50-year best.
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Pauline Maier began the historiography section with three "Disjunctions" based on her previous work at NEH and a newly written rejoinder following comments by five other scholars.
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Pauline Maier writes online courses available at her university and used by other universities.
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Beyond traditional college offerings, Pauline Maier integrated participatory learning, political history and social history in a collaboration with online MUVE gaming project in a format that younger "digital divide" learners find engaging.
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Pauline Maier reaches out to students before college in texts used in high schools for Advanced Placement courses and previously in a text for middle schoolers with a braille edition.
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Pauline Maier connects with secondary teachers through the "Teaching American History" courses.
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Pauline Maier has been a TAH presenter and her books are used for required readings in college credit courses around the country for high school teachers to acquire a better background in American history.
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Pauline Maier wrote popular book reviews and opinion columns for several periodicals, including the New York Times Books, Arts and Opinion pages, all relating to her scholarly area of expertise.
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Pauline Maier occasionally appeared as a guest on radio talk programs.
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Pauline Maier was an advisor to History News Network out of George Mason University.
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Pauline Maier's approving review of Maya Jasanoff's well-written "Liberty's exiles: American loyalists in the Revolutionary world" and recalling Mary Beth Norton's 1970 prize-winning "British Americans".