Akhil Reed Amar and David Blight of Yale University and Annette Gordon-Reed, president of the Organization of American Historians and Harvard professor, join National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen for a sweeping conversation about the Constitution and the debates that have shaped America—from the founding era to today. They’ll examine transformative moments in American history and landmark Supreme Court decisions.
This program is presented in partnership with the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute and the Organization of American Historians.
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Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School. He is the host of the America's Constitution podcast and has been cited by U.S. Supreme Court justices across the ideological spectrum in over 40 cases. A leading scholar of constitutional law and history, he is the author of numerous landmark works, including his most recent book, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760–1840.
David Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University. He is Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and a frequent public historian and lecturer. His work has won numerous honors, including the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and has received numerous honors including the National Book Award, MacArthur Fellowship, and National Humanities Medal. Gordon-Reed is the author of the recent book On Juneteenth and currently serves as president of the Organization of American Historians.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
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