<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Myriad Pro Semibold'" size="6"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Myriad Pro Semibold'" size="6"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Sahin Seminar Series</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></font></p></font><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left: 4.3pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">“The People Debate the Constitution: An American Story, 1787-1788”</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left: 4.3pt; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(171, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; ">Pauline Maier, MIT History Faculty</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">When the state convention called to ratify or reject the proposed federal Constitution convened in Boston on January 9, 1788, five states had already voted to ratify. Only four more states had to ratify for the Constitution to go into effect, but its fate remained doubtful.</span></font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">The two chapters being circulated for this work-in-progress seminar tell the landmark story of the Massachusetts convention.</span></font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">They are from the manuscript of a book, to be published next year by Simon and Schuster, that will be the first to tell the story of the Constitution’s ratification by focusing on the elected state conventions where the decisions to ratify (or not) were actually made.</span></font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Pauline Maier will open the seminar by talking about the project in general, including the challenge of writing narratives and the sometimes revolutionary opportunities opened by published (or digitized) document collections.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(171, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; ">Thursday, April 1, 2010</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="color: rgb(171, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">4:15 – 6 PM</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="color: rgb(171, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Building E51 Room 275</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="color: rgb(171, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge</span></font></span></b></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><b><span style="color: navy; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Free and open to the public. For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact </span></font><a href="mailto:Collett@mcollett@mit.edu"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">mcollett@mit.edu</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">.</span></font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">This event is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty.</span></font></span></span></font></o:p></span></b></p></span></span></font></p></font></body></html>