Videos

Prairie View A&M history professor Ronald Goodwin discussed the early Republic and how Americans tried to define equality and interpret the Constitution in the first decades of the United St…

In part three of Books That Shaped America, Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs explored the Journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, which were published in 1814 and recorded the 1804-1806 exped…

Author Beau Breslin talked about what the Constitution might look like it if were rewritten by every American generation. He also explored which Founding Fathers encouraged frequent revision…

Notre Dame professor Vincent Munoz argued that the Founders' had a considerably different understanding of religious freedom than Americans do today. This event was hosted by the American En…

Yale University Law and Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar recounted the biggest questions and concerns that American citizens had regarding the Constitution after it was ratified. …

Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman talked about Alexander Hamilton’s role in the creation of the federal government. She described how, after the American Revolution, states operated as separ…

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood examined the political debates that surrounded the creation of the U.S. Constitution. He was joined in discussion by other panelists who explored…

Tobey Pearl recounted the first murder trial in the Plymouth Colony for the fatal robbery of a Nipmuc tribesman in 1638. This was a virtual event hosted by Porter Square Bookstore in Cambrid…

“Coverture” is a legal term giving sole authority over a woman to her father, and then her husband at the time of marriage. Catherine Allgor, president of the Massachusetts Historical Societ…

Constitutional law Professor Kermit Roosevelt presented a talk titled: “The Constitution and Declaration of Independence: A Contrary View.” Professor Roosevelt, the great-great-grandson of T…

Professor Jack Rakove talked about some of the issues debated during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, such as the number of representatives for each state and the method of presidentia…

William Hyland talked about his book, George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights.

Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit discussed the history and evolution of the U.S. Supreme Court. He explained how justices decided seve…

Brion McClanahan examines the U.S. Constitution and presented his thoughts on the authors of the document’s original intentions and whether its current interpretation should be rigid or flex…

Professor Vincent Phillip Muñoz taught a class on some of the intellectual ideas, such as “natural rights,” underpinning the American founding and Constitution. He discussed with the class w…

Philanthropist David Rubenstein talked about what he thinks Americans should know about the 1787 Constitutional Convention. He was joined Jeffrey Rosen.

Professor Gordon Lloyd gave a Constitution Day talk titled, “The Lost Art of Compromise.” Professor Lloyd discussed compromises in the framing of the U.S. Constitution and argued that contem…

Jeffrey Rosen gave a tour of the permanent exhibit of 42 bronze statues of America’s Founding Fathers, and talked about the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Ranger Carlin Timmons talked about the story of Charles Pinckney. A signer of the U.S. Constitution, governor of South Carolina, and a member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives,…

National Park Service Park Ranger Matthew Ifill told the story of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Convention from the room inside Independence Hall where the events to…