The Articles of Confederation - Becoming the United States - Extra History - #1
When the thirteen colonies of North America broke away from Great Britain, they struggled to draft their first constitution. After great debate, they created the ...
Extra Credits
The Constitution and Slavery
Discover the impact of slavery on the drafting, ratification, and interpretation of the United States' Constitution. Daniel Thorp, associate professor of history at ...
Alexandria Library
The Framing of the Constitution, or Why the United States is not a Democracy - Myth is America
In this episode, we discuss the myth of the crafting of the Constitution of the United States of America and explain why it is intentionally not a democracy.
Revolution and Ideology
The American Constitution
Lecture by Prof. John Witte, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor, Emory Law, for the Emory College Voluntary Core ...
Emory University
We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
In the years following the end of the American Revolution, the Continental Congress was on the brink of collapse due to the Articles of Confederation and its ...
US National Archives
Where US Politics Came From: Crash Course US History #9
In which John Green teaches you where American politicians come from. In the beginning, soon after the US constitution was adopted, politics were pretty ...
CrashCourse
20. Confederation
The American Revolution (HIST 116) This lecture discusses the ongoing political experimentation involved in creating new constitutions for the new American ...
YaleCourses
APUSH Review: Period 3 (1754 - 1800) in 10 Minutes
Download an interactive review sheet for period 1 here: http://www.apushreview.com/review-sheets/ If you would like to download the PowerPoint used in this ...
Adam Norris
APUSH Review: Video #14: State Constitutions And The Articles Of Confederation
Why were the Articles of Confederation designed to be weak? What were positives and negatives under the Articles of Confederation? Find out here! Here are ...
Adam Norris
Early 1800s US Foreign Policy | BRI's Homework Help Series
Have you ever looked at your teacher with a puzzled face when they explain history? I know we have. In our new Homework Help Series we break down history ...
Bill of Rights Institute
I Ain't No Three Fifths of a Person: Slavery and the Constitution
I Ain't No Three Fifths of a Person: Slavery and the Constitution explores the reactions and perspectives of key members of the Mount Vernon and Monticello ...
Fairfax Network - Fairfax County Public Schools
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
James Madison's Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention has acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the description of the Constitution's creation.
US National Archives
The Texas State Constitution
The Consitituion of Texas is the supreme law of the State. It is based on popular sovereignty and limited government. It includes a bill of rights that guarantees ...
DrPalmerHistory
Jack Rakove: "Three Myths about the Constitutional Convention"
History professor Jack Rakove launches his Stanford course, "The Constitution: A Brief History," with a discussion on three myths associated with the ...
Stanford
Presidents Adams and the Problem of Democracy
Historians Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein examine the parallels between the politics and personalities of father and son Presidents John Adams and ...
National Constitution Center
25. Being an American: The Legacy of the Revolution
The American Revolution (HIST 116) Professor Freeman discusses when we can consider a revolution to have ended, arguing that a revolution is finally ...
YaleCourses
Why does America have the Constitution of 1787? New Historical Perspectives
Why does America have the Constitution of 1787? New Historical Perspectives PANEL DISCUSSION Moderator, JOSEPH CULLON, PROFESSOR OF ...
Dartmouth
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
The Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture: "A Republic, If You Can Keep It" Keith Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Director of Graduate Studies, ...
Dartmouth
Does the UK need a Second Amendment?
Source: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jjpz3-9801af This week we're joined by Dr Steve Davies, Head of Education at the IEA, to discuss one of the ...
iealondon
"The Constitutionalism of John Adams" - Darren Staloff, Constitution Day 2017
Join the School of Public Policy for its annual Constitution Day lecture, this year featuring Darren Staloff, professor of early American history at The City College ...
Pepperdine School of Public Policy
James T. Kloppenberg, "Why Madison Matters: Rethinking Democracy in America"
At this moment in US history, when the rule of law itself is endangered by a dangerously autocratic president, James Kloppenberg returns our attention to the ...
University of Chicago Law School
The Declaration of Independence: Lessons for Citizenship in Challenging Times
Danielle Allen Thanks to the opportunity to teach the Declaration of Independence to low-income night school students in Chicago, Danielle Allen, James Bryant ...
Claremont McKenna College
Allen Guelzo on “The Lovely, Fair, Judicious and Democratic Meaning of the Electoral College”
Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era, and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Abraham ...
Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard
James Traub: The Militant Spirit of John Quincy Adams
Journalist and foreign policy expert James Traub unveils his essential biography on the life and complex political career of America's sixth president—from his ...
National Constitution Center
A Constitution Day talk with Michael Klarman
Harvard Law School Professor Michael Klarman gave a lecture at Harvard Law School on Constitution Day (Sept. 17), titled "Not Written in Stone," which ...
Harvard Law School
Audio: The American Revolution: The Most Significant Result Of The Enlightenment Period
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The Great Courses Plus
James T. Kloppenberg Why democracy is in crisis: a historical perspective.
Part of the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History Visiting Speakers Series Date: April 1, 2019 Location: McMaster Univeristy, LRW Wilson Hall, Black Box ...
McMaster Humanities
The Conscience of the Constitution
Is liberty or democracy the primary constitutional value? Join constitutional scholars Timothy Sandefur and Kermit Roosevelt for a conversation exploring this ...
National Constitution Center
Joseph J. Ellis On Organizing America After Revolution
To begin the 2015 Lowell Lecture Series on Revolutionary Boston, author and scholar Joseph J. Ellis will talk about his latest book, The Quartet: Orchestrating ...
GBH Forum Network
So Important an Interest: Slavery and the US Constitution
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 brought together strong-willed representatives with opposing points of view on slavery and its future. To ensure passage ...
Colonial Williamsburg
Historian Pauline Maier on the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution
Pauline Maier is a leading historian of the American Revolution and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
University of Richmond
Public International law and IHL | Law | Unacademy Live - NTA UGC NET | Nitin Gaurav Srivastav
In this session, the educator will discuss the strategy to tackle Public international law and IHL with PYQs Learn LIVE from Nitin Gaurav Srivastav and other Top ...
Unacademy Live - NTA UGC NET
Educator Webinar: The Second Amendment: Past and Present
Director of Education, Mike Adams, introduced the Center's Second Amendment teaching and learning resources. These include the Writing Rights and Rights ...
National Constitution Center
APUSH Review: Key Concept 3.2 (Period 3)
To download the New APUSH curriculum guideline, please visit here: http:__media.collegeboard.
Adam Norris
James Madison, Federalist
Lance Banning discusses the role of James Madison in the writing of "The Federalist Papers" at this symposium celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of ...
Library of Congress
America's Political Beginnings
This video lesson discusses America's early political beginnings. The basic concepts of a social system of government, limited government, and a representative ...
Chris Thomas
What Time Was the American Revolution? Reflections on a Familiar Narrative
This lecture challenged our traditional assumptions about the chronology of the American Revolution. T.H. Breen rejected a familiar story that begins in the early ...
Library of Congress
Richard Bourke Edmund Burke and the Origins of Conservatism
A passionate critic of the French Revolution yet a defender of the revolt of the American colonies: this lecture explores the paradoxical relationship between ...
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - Institute for Advanced Study
Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution: Crash Course World History #28
In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two different things. John goes ...
CrashCourse
Presidential Power and the Dangers of Delegation
The United States Code is filled with collections of words that look and act like laws but in reality simply delegate authority to make law to executive and judicial ...
Atlas Society
Louise Knight | How Massachusetts Women Became Political || Radcliffe Institute
The historian Louise W. Knight speaks about the women's antislavery petition campaign in Massachusetts during the summer of 1837 and the leaders of that ...
Harvard University
The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era (HD)
Leading legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar addresses the biggest and most bitterly contested debates of the last two decades and provides a passionate handbook ...
National Constitution Center