In this Scholar Exchange, we take a close look at the events that led to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, including the weakness of the Articles of Confederation, Shay’s Rebellion, and the growing need for a new national government.
Joining Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, is Alexis Coe, New York Times bestselling author and historian, to examine how America remembers our first president. Coe, only the third woman to write a complete Washington biography, reexamines some of the common and unfamiliar stories of our first president, as described in her new book, a New York Times bestseller, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington.
