African American Constitutional Visionaries

This week's episode shares the courageous stories of African American constitutional visionaries—including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Monroe Trotter and Pauli Murray. Judge Theodore McKee and professor Theodore M. Shaw join host Jeffrey Rosen.

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Revolutionary Prophecies

In a special Presidents Day event highlighting the diverse cast of characters that helped to found the nation, Jeffrey Rosen was joined by historians Joanne Freeman, Robert McDonald, and Peter Onuf—all of whom are contributors to the new volume Revolutionary Prophecies: The Founders and America’s Future.

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A Controversial Executive Order That Led to Internment Camps by NCC staff

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On This Day, Women First Allowed to Argue Supreme Court Cases by Scott Bomboy

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The "Forgotten Founders" series on the Center's Constitution Daily blog highlights the under-appreciated heroes of early America. Read the latest profile—on the first globally recognized African American female poet and dedicated abolitionist, Phyllis Wheatley—as well as the rest of the series at the links below.

From the National Constitution Center:

Forgotten Founders: Phillis Wheatley, African-American Poet of the Revolution by Nicholas Mosvick
Forgotten Founders: Gouverneur Morris by Nicholas Mosvick
Forgotten Founders: James Wilson, Craftsman of the Constitution by Nicholas Mosvick
Forgotten Founders: Elbridge Gerry, The “Brusque Maverick” by Nicholas Mosvick

The 14th Amendment

"...No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

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