FEB 15 I 7 p.m. ET

The America of the early republic was built on a hopeful prophecy that would only be fulfilled if an enlightened people could learn from its past to secure its future. Join Joanne Freeman, Class of 1954 Professor of American History and of American Studies at Yale University, Robert McDonald, professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia—all contributors to the new volume Revolutionary Prophecies: The Founders and America’s Future—to discuss the diverse cast of characters that founded the nation, and how their vision for the country’s future shaped American history. 

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In this Fun Friday Session, Ralph Young, professor of history at Temple University and the author of Dissent in America: Voices that Shaped a Nation, joins National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen for a discussion on the First Amendment’s assembly and petition clauses. We will explore moments of American dissent from the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War, through the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, to modern movements—and what they mean for constitutional change.

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