July 9, 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment.
In anticipation of this momentous anniversary, this past April, the National Constitution Center partnered with the Thurgood Marshall Institute at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for a day-long symposium about the 14th Amendment.
In this episode, we feature a panel discussion from this symposium with some of America’s leading Civil War and Reconstruction scholars: Dr. Allen Guelzo of Gettysburg College, Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins University, Darrell A. H. Miller of Duke Law School, and Kurt Lash of the Richmond School of Law.
They tell the story of the 14th Amendment by focusing on the amendment’s intellectual origins, drafting, ratification, and original understanding. The host is Jeffrey Rosen. Sherrilyn Ifill, the seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Trustee of the National Constitution Center, provides introductory remarks.
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Allen Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era, and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College.
Martha Jones is Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.
Kurt Lash is E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in Law and Founder and director of the Richmond Program on the American Constitution at Richmond School of Law.
Darrell A.H. Miller is Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law at Duke Law School.
Sherrilyn Ifill is the seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.”
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