Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore explores the ongoing struggle to amend America's founding document and keep it a living framework for an evolving nation.

Women and State Constitution-making in 1961" tracks the experiences of the 11 women delegates during the state's 1961 ...

Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what relates directly to ...

A History of the U.S. Constitution’ by Jill Lepore. J ill Lepore’s latest best seller “lands at the right moment, like a life ...

Patrick T. Conley is historian laureate of Rhode Island. Over the course of my career as a professor specializing in American constitutional development, as an attorney with a specialty in ...

The Constitution has been amended 27 times. The most recent amendment, the 27th, (1992) prevents raises for Congress from ...

Two days after he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, in September 1862, Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus throughout the United States, subjecting all Americans to the threat of ...

An important conservative intellectual was here teaching an attentive post-graduate audience about the contributions of a dozen intellectual leaders of the early conservative movement. But it soon ...

The National Constitution Center’s prestigious Liberty Medal typically honors notables from presidents to civil rights ...

The "Velshi Banned Book Club" is taking a look at a work of writing that has sparked ferocious and unrelenting debate since its publication. A work of writing that has been quoted and misquoted for ...

Every year, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005 because I tend to read what relates directly to my current ...