Presidential Power, Standing, and Student Loan Forgiveness

Run time: 50 minutes

Scholars William Araiza and Anastasia Boden analyze the arguments in the two challenges to the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program before the Supreme Court. Listen now

Slavery and Liberty at America’s Founding

Run time: 1 hour and 7 minutes

Historians Harold Holzer and Manisha Sinha join Edward Larson for a conversation on Larson’s new book, American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, to explore the paradox of liberty and slavery in Revolutionary America through the Civil War era. Watch now

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On This Day: Term Limits for American Presidents

by NCC Staff | Read time: 3 minutes

“On February 27, 1951, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, limiting the number of terms served by the President. The move ended a controversy over Franklin Roosevelt's four elected terms to the White House. ...” Read more

How One Telegram Helped to Lead America Toward War

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 5 minutes

“On February 26, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson learned of a shocking piece of paper that made America’s entry into World War I inevitable. And current research shows the Americans didn’t know everything German diplomats intended. ...” Read more

Women’s Suffrage Featuring Lisa Tetrault

Lisa Tetrault, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University joins Center Chief Learning Officer Kerry Sautner for a discussion of the women’s suffrage movement and the story of the 19th Amendment. Professor Tetrault explores both of these topics in her book, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, as well as in her upcoming work. Watch now

Article II, Section 1

“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”

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