[Sci-tech-public] Sahin Seminar Thursday, November 12, 2009

[Margo Collett]

Sahin Seminar Series

Massachusetts Institute of Technology




  “The People Debate the Constitution: An American Story, 1787-1788”



Pauline Maier, MIT History Faculty

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.  The two chapters being circulated for this work-in-progress  
seminar tell the landmark story of the Massachusetts convention.  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.   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.





Thursday, November 12, 2009

4:30 – 6 PM

Building E51 Room 275

Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge





Free and open to the public. For more information or to be put on the  
mailing list, please contact Margo Collett at mcollett@mit.edu.  This  
event is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty.
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