<p>Explore the history of the US Constitution from its conception through 230 years of discussions and debates.</p>
Overview
Syllabus
- 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
Taught by
Eric Berger
