University of Virginia's Charles McCurdy explores how the Founding Fathers dealt with the unanticipated emergence of hotly contested, increasingly political interpretations of the Constitution during the first decade of the Early Republic and also how they responded to fact that constitutional change had occurred through interpretation rather than through constitutional amendment. Recorded on 04/03/2014. (#28227)

American History

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   Honoring Sally: Tam O'Shaughnessy Aboard the R/V Sally Ride
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   Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Burden of Slavery with Annette Gordon-Reed - Conversations with History
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   Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

History

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   Jews and Revolution: The American Experience
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   Rising from the Rubble: Creating POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
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   The Surprising Road to Women's Suffrage