Native Peoples and Redefining U.S. History

Wednesday, November 1 | Noon ET

Join historians Ned Blackhawk, Brenda Child, and Richard White for a conversation on Blackhawk’s national bestseller, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History—a sweeping retelling of American history. They will explore five centuries of U.S. history to shed light on the central role Indigenous peoples have played in shaping our nation’s narrative. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

From Founders to Politicians: Political Divisions at America’s Birth

Tuesday, November 7 | Noon ET

The election of 1800 was the first hotly contested partisan election in American history. Still, peaceful transfers of power continued for the next two centuries. But how? This Election Day, join Carol Berkin, author of A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism, and H.W. Brands, author of Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and the Brawling Birth of American Politics, to explore political partisanship and nationalism in early America. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

What the Black Intellectual Tradition Can Teach Us About Democracy

Tuesday, November 14 | 7 p.m. ET

Join New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie and political scientist Melvin Rogers, author of The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought, for a conversation exploring the ways key African American intellectuals and artists—from David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and W.E.B. Du Bois to Billie Holiday and James Baldwin—reimagined U.S. democracy. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

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The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation

Monday, December 11 | 7 p.m. ET

Join Robert Post, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, as he delves into the highly anticipated volumes from the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, The Taft Court Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930. Post will explore the history of the Taft Court and the contrasting constitutional approaches among its justices, including Louis Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., among others. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

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