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Mary Sarah Bilder
Bilder in 2016
Born	(1965-10-11) October 11, 1965 (age 59)
Awards	Bancroft Prize
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin–Madison, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	History of American Law
Institutions	Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, Boston College Law School

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.

Works

• The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire. Harvard University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-674-01512-8.
• Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention. Harvard University Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-674-49550-0.
• 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

1. "Faculty Directory: Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders Professor of Law".
2. Landers, Robert K. "The Birth of the Constitution". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
3. Barbash, Fred (2015-11-18). "How James Madison doctored the story of the Constitutional Convention of 1787". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-04-04.

External links

External videos
Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention, Clough Center, November 5, 2015

• http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/160614
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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