History Now Essay Race and the American Constitution: A Struggle toward National Ideals James Oliver Horton Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ James O. Horton was the Benjamin Banneker Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History at George Washington University and historian emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. He edited,... Appears in: 13 | The Constitution Fall 2007 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020
News New York Ratifies Constitution: On This Day, July 26 After the Constitutional Convention adopted the US Constitution in September 1787, the long and contentious road to its ratification began. Each state formed a special convention to vote on ratification. The pressure was on: at a...
History Now Essay Douglass and the US Constitution: The Dred Scott Decision Randall Kennedy Government and Civics Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations. He served as a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the US... Appears in: 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020
News Revisiting the Founding Era at the National Constitution Center On January 10 historians Carol Berkin and Denver Brunsman, community leader Farah Jimenez, and the Constitutional Sources Project’s executive director, Julie Silverbrook, gathered for a town hall at the National Constitution Center in...