The US Constitution through History

<p>Explore the history of the US Constitution from its conception through 230 years of discussions and debates.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: America’s Founding Ideas
• 02: Failures of Early American Governments
• 03: Dilemmas of the Constitutional Convention
• 04: The Ratification of the Constitution
• 05: The Bill of Rights as a Concession
• 06: The Rise of Federal Power: Hamilton’s Bank
• 07: Constitutional Issues of Westward Expansion
• 08: The Law of Slavery under the Constitution
• 09: Constitutional Roots of Sectional Tensions
• 10: Lincoln, Civil War, and the Constitution
• 11: Emancipation and the Thirteenth Amendment
• 12: The Fourteenth Amendment and Freedom’s Meaning
• 13: Reconstruction Politics and Voting Rights
• 14: Reconstruction’s Broken Legal Promises
• 15: Equal Protection at the Turn of the Century
• 16: The Constitution in the Progressive Era
• 17: World War I and the Birth of Free Speech
• 18: The New Deal: The Constitution Transformed
• 19: Challenging Jim Crow in the Courts
• 20: The Backlash against Brown v. Board of Education
• 21: The ERA and the Battle over Women’s Rights
• 22: Conservatism, Christianity, and the Court
• 23: History in Constitutional Interpretation
• 24: The Unresolved Constitution