The Battle Over Free Speech on Campus

Run time: 1 hour, 4 minutes

First Amendment scholars Keith Whittington and Geoffrey Stone join Jeffrey Rosen to discuss the current debates over free speech on campus. They also discuss Whittington’s new book, You Can’t Teach That!: The Battle Over University Classrooms. Listen now

Living Constitutionally: Insights From A.J. Jacobs and Jeffrey Rosen

Run time: 54 minutes

A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning, and NCC President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen, author of the new book The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America explore what it means to live constitutionally today. Watch now

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Brown v. Board: When the Supreme Court Ruled Against Segregation

by NCC Staff | Read time: 4 minutes

“The decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on May 17, 1954 is perhaps the most famous of all Supreme Court cases, as it started the process ending segregation. It overturned the equally far-reaching decision of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. ...” Read more

The Mexican-American War in a Nutshell

by NCC Staff | Read time: 3 minutes

“May marks two key anniversaries in the conflict between the United States and Mexico that set in motion the Civil War—and led to California, Texas, and eight other states joining the Union. ...” Read more

The Delaware Companion Cases to Brown v. Board of Education

In this look back at the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision about desegregation, author Ronald K.L. Collins and Judge Thomas L. Ambro recall the case from Delaware that was also part of the Supreme Court’s considerations. Read more

The First Amendment

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Read interpretations in the Interactive Constitution

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