Mary Sarah Bilder

{{Short description|American historian}}

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Mary Sarah Bilder (born October 11, 1965) is an American historian, and a winner of the 2016 Bancroft Prize.

Life

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Harvard Law School, and Harvard University. She taught at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, and teaches at Boston College Law School.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/law/academics-faculty/faculty-directory/mary-sarah-bilder.html|title=Faculty Directory: Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders Professor of Law}}

Works

  • {{cite book| title=The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire|year=2004|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-01512-8}}
  • {{cite book| title=Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention|year=2015|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-49550-0}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-birth-of-the-constitution-1445636038|title=The Birth of the Constitution|last=Landers|first=Robert K.|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|issn=0099-9660|access-date=2016-04-04}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/18/how-james-madison-doctered-the-story-of-the-constitutional-convention-of-1787/|title=How James Madison doctored the story of the Constitutional Convention of 1787|last=Barbash|first=Fred|date=2015-11-18|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2016-04-04}}
  • Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution. University of Virginia Press, 2022. {{ISBN|978-0-813-94719-8}}

Honors

  • 2016 – Bancroft Prize for Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention

References

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