The US Constitution through History

The US Constitution through History « Series from 2023

Series from 2023

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In The US Constitution through History, Professor Eric Berger of the University of Nebraska takes you on a journey through America’s constitutional history.

In 24 riveting lectures, unpack the ideas of America’s founding and trace the evolution of those ideas through the schisms of the 19th century, the transformations of the 20th century, and into our present era.

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America’s Founding Ideas

Failures of Early American Governments

Dilemmas of the Constitutional Convention

The Ratification of the Constitution

The Bill of Rights as a Concession

The Rise of Federal Power: Hamilton’s Bank

Constitutional Issues of Westward Expansion

The Law of Slavery under the Constitution

Constitutional Roots of Sectional Tensions

Lincoln, Civil War, and the Constitution

Emancipation and the Thirteenth Amendment

The Fourteenth Amendment and Freedom’s Meaning

Reconstruction Politics and Voting Rights

Reconstruction’s Broken Legal Promises

Equal Protection at the Turn of the Century

The Constitution in the Progressive Era

World War I and the Birth of Free Speech

The New Deal: The Constitution Transformed

Challenging Jim Crow in the Courts

The Backlash against Brown v. Board of Education

The ERA and the Battle over Women’s Rights

Conservatism, Christianity, and the Court

History in Constitutional Interpretation

The Unresolved Constitution