Pauline Maier is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at MIT and the author of several books and textbooks on American history, including American Scripture, which was on the New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice list of the best 11 books of 1997 and a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award.
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When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia adjourned late in the summer of 1787, the delegates returned to their states to report on the new Constitution, which had to be ratified by specially elected conventions in at least nine states. Pauline M... SEE MORE