Live at the National Constitution Center
Live constitutional conversations and debates featuring leading historians, journalists, scholars, and public officials hosted at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and across America. To watch National Constitution Center Town Halls live, check out our schedule of upcoming programs at constitutioncenter.org/townhall. Register through Zoom to ask your constitutional questions in the Q&A or watch live on YouTube at YouTube.com/ConstitutionCenter.
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A Primer on Presidential Primaries
Exploring the history and influence of presidential primary races and campaigns, scholars join host Jeffrey Rosen.
63 min
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How Presidents Handled America's Biggest Consti...
How have presidents handled the biggest constitutional crises in American history? Historians discuss with host Jeffrey Rosen.
53 min
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Rep. John Lewis on MLK and “Good Trouble”
Rep. John Lewis tells the inspiring story of his journey to becoming a civil rights icon and shares how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. changed his life in this 2013 Constitution Day address.
34 min
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Joshua Matz on When to Impeach, and Why
Impeachment scholar Joshua Matz explains why he thinks impeachment can be both a powerful tool to check the presidency and a damaging force in our democracy in this 2018 sit-down with NCC President Jeffrey Rosen.
61 min
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Airstrikes, “Imminent Threats,” and the Constit...
War powers experts John Yoo, Deborah Pearlstein, and Ben Wittes joined Jeffrey Rosen for this 2017 conversation that lends context to the current controversies over the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian military leader Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
61 min
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The Fourth Amendment: Past and Present
Leading Fourth Amendment scholars trace the evolution of privacy rights from the Founding to today in conversation with host Jeffrey Rosen.
44 min
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RBG on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits down with Jeffrey Rosen to share invaluable life lessons, reflect on her career, and discuss Jeff’s new book Conversation with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty and Law.
69 min
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The Girl in the Picture: Remembering the Vietna...
Kim Phúc, the subject of a photograph that shaped the Vietnam war, shares her firsthand experiences of the conflict in this moving conversation that also features Vietnam War historian Mark Bowden, composer Hannibal Lokumbe, and moderator Jeffrey Rosen.
66 min
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Should President Trump Be Impeached? Part Two
Current and former members of Congress share their unique insights into the impeachment process and whether they would vote to impeach the president
48 min
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Should President Trump Be Impeached? Part One
Leading constitutional scholars break down the facts at the center of the current impeachment inquiry of President Trump and detail the constitutional conception of impeachment.
36 min
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The Promise and the Thwarting of Reconstruction
Leading historians explore how we define Reconstruction and how that period has been remembered, and misremembered.
62 min
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Eric Foner on The Second Founding
Telling the story of how the Reconstruction amendments transformed the Constitution and the country – acclaimed historian Eric Foner sits down with Jeffrey Rosen.
60 min
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Jeffrey Rosen on Conversations with RBG
National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen unveils his new book Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law in a live interview with Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick.
67 min
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For Debate: Should the Constitution Be More Dem...
Is the Constitution democratic enough, or should it be reformed and made more democratic? Constitutional scholars Randy Barnett and Vikram Amar debate these crucial questions. Jeffrey Rosen moderates.
58 min
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Richard Stengel on Disinformation
Journalist Richard Stengel discusses how the United States tried — and failed — to combat the global rise of disinformation that eventually spilled into the 2016 election, as told in his new book.
60 min
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Should Roe v. Wade be Overturned?
Reproductive rights experts debate abortion and the Constitution live at the National Constitution Center.
51 min
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Hillary and Chelsea Clinton on Gutsy Women
Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter Chelsea unveil their new book "The Book of Gutsy Women" at the National Constitution Center.
52 min
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Supreme Court 2019 Term Preview
In this live recording of our companion podcast We the People, SCOTUSblog’s Amy Howe and John Elwood join host Jeffrey Rosen to preview the Supreme Court’s 2019 term.
63 min
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Impeachment and “The Battle for the Constitution”
Reps. Lance Gooden (R-TX) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) and legal scholars discuss the breaking news of the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Trump in panels hosted by The National Constitution Center and The Atlantic at The Atlantic Festival in DC.
95 min
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Justice Neil Gorsuch
Justice Gorsuch discusses civics and civility, the importance of separation of powers, what originalism means to him, and why he is optimistic about the future of America with NCC President Jeffrey Rosen.
59 min
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Hamilton and the Constitutional Clashes that Sh...
Alexander Hamilton’s clashes with rivals like Aaron Burr, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams shaped the early republic. Historians join host Jeffrey Rosen to explore those clashes.
64 min
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What is Habeas Corpus?
What does habeas corpus mean, where does it come from, and how has it been important throughout history? Professor Amanda Tyler of Berkeley Law discuss her book on the history of habeas.
61 min
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Dissent: An American Tradition
America "didn't create dissent — dissent created us," according to historian Ralph Young. He sits down with NCC Scholar-in-Residence Michael Gerhardt to discuss the ways dissent has shaped American history.
61 min
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Armed in America
Diving deep into the history of the right to bear arms in America from colonial militias to concealed carry, historian Patrick Charles and legal scholar Brandon Denning join the NCC's Lana Ulrich.
61 min
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Slavery and its Opponents at America’s Founding
Was the original Constitution pro-slavery? Historian Sean Wilentz rethinks this question in conversation with Jeffrey Rosen.
69 min