February 22, 2021
This Black History Month marks the 151st anniversary of the 15th Amendment, which said that the right to vote could not be denied on account of race.
President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen and MSNBC’s Ali Velshi discuss how the constitutional clashes over slavery set the stage for the Civil War, and how the nation transformed the Constitution during the Reconstruction period.
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie joins award-winning journalist Juan Williams for a conversation on Williams’ latest book…
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Eric Foner discusses Our Fragile Freedoms, a new collection of essays exploring a range of…
National Constitution Center content fellow Trey Sullivan takes a look at the complicated relationship between William Lloyd…
In this fast-paced and fun session, Caroline Fredrickson, one of the legal scholars behind the National Constitution Center’s…
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