The Constitution has been amended 27 times. The most recent amendment, the 27th, (1992) prevents raises for Congress from ...

Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore explores the ongoing struggle to amend America's founding document and keep it a living framework for an evolving nation.

Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what relates directly to ...

A History of the U.S. Constitution’ by Jill Lepore. J ill Lepore’s latest best seller “lands at the right moment, like a life ...

Alison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, has been awarded the American Historical Association’s (AHA) ...

Patrick T. Conley is historian laureate of Rhode Island. Over the course of my career as a professor specializing in American constitutional development, as an attorney with a specialty in ...

Jill Lepore writes about the strength and stability of America's founding document — and its capacity for change. And Angela ...

Two days after he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, in September 1862, Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus throughout the United States, subjecting all Americans to the threat of ...

An important conservative intellectual was here teaching an attentive post-graduate audience about the contributions of a dozen intellectual leaders of the early conservative movement. But it soon ...

At the Liberty Medal ceremony on Friday night, Chernow acknowledged that when he began writing his book in 1998, Hamilton was ...