This piece is part of “America in the balance: the fight for our history and future,” a special series from MS NOW that explores where we are as a nation as we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the ...

What is Constitution Day anyway? Most of us didn’t grow up celebrating it in school, although maybe schools in the United States of America would be wise to make it a big deal in our education system ...

Excerpted from “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution” by Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. We the People. The ...

The Boston College community will commemorate Constitution and Citizenship Day—a federal observance honoring the signing of the United States Constitution—on September 17 by sharing their perspectives ...

During Constitution Week, we proudly commemorate the 239th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, the very foundation of our Republic and an eternal reminder that all power ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today's constitutional debates echo arguments from the nineteenth century. At their center stood Frederick Douglass, whose ...