We The People Stories
By National Constitution Center
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The National Constitution Center invites you to participate in a national conversation about the Constitution, its history and its contemporary relevance. Our programming features nationally recognized leaders discussing the Constitution, our rights and responsibilities as citizens, and everyday politics.
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Equality Forum: LGBT Rights and the 2012 Election - PART 2 | Featuring Andrew Tobias, R. Clarke Cooper, Patrick Guerriero, Rebecca Isaacs, and Chuck Wolfe. | 5/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Equality Forum: LGBT Rights and the 2012 Election - PART 1 | Featuring William Eskridge, Katherine Franke, Hayley Gorenberg, Jennifer C. Pizer, and Janson Wu. | 5/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amy Gutmann and Dennis F. Thompson: The Spirit of Compromise | Featuring Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson and Andrea Mitchell. | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joseph J. Ellis on the First Family: Abigail and John Adams | Featuring Joseph J. Ellis and Dr. Richard R. Beeman moderates. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Social Media: The New Political Battleground | With Jonathan Capehart, Maria Cardona, Andrew Rasiej, Daniel Sieberg, Alex Torpey and Todd Van Etten. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with Senator Arlen Specter | Specter provides an insider's look at the growing partisan divide in Washington and on the campaign trail with Mike Castle, former member of Congress and Governor of Delaware, moderates. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Election 2012: Tax Reform | Featuring economists Rich Lowrie, Bruce Bartlett and Rosanne Altshuler. | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Left and Right: Rendell and Whitman on Election 2012 | with former Governors Ed Rendell and Christine Todd Whitman. | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Practically Speaking: Transportation in a Time of Political Gridlock | With Peter J. “Jack” Basso, Chief Operating Officer of AASHTO; Joshua L. Schank, President and CEO of Eno Transportation Foundation; James S. Simpson, Chairman of NJ TRANSIT; and Martin Wachs, senior principal researcher at RAND. David Thornburgh, Exe | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cullen Murphy: God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World | Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy discusses his new book with James B. Steele, contributing editor for Vanity Fair. | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Would the Founding Fathers Think of Facebook? | With privacy expert and author Lori Andrews, Forbes blogger Kashmir Hill, New York Times reporter Jennifer Preston, and Christopher Wink, co-founder of Technically Philly. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jodi Kantor: The Obamas | New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor provides an insider’s perspective on Barack and Michelle Obamas' experiences as president and first lady. | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chris Matthews on Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero | MSNBC's Hardball host and bestselling author Chris Matthews joins nationally syndicated radio host Michael Smerconish in conversation about his new book, Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tony Horwitz: Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War | With bestselling author Tony Horwitz and Judith Giesberg, Associate Professor of History at Villanova University. | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Supreme Court's Upcoming Milestone Term | With Lyle Denniston, veteran Supreme Court correspondent and the National Constitution Center’s Advisor on Constitutional Literacy, and John Payton, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund. | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Brookhiser: James Madison | Eminent historian Richard Brookhiser joins Michael C. Quinn, president of the Montpelier Foundation, to discuss his newly released book about the “Father of the Constitution.” | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dana Priest: Top Secret America | Award-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest discusses her new book, Top Secret America, and the size, shape, mission and consequences of the universe created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with Robert M. Gates | 2011 Liberty Medal recipient and former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates speeks about a range of subjects–from the future of the military, to the status of Middle East diplomacy, to the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t tell policy. | 10/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cradle of Liberty | With Richard Beeman, Gary Nash, Michael Coard, and Richard Newman. | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Supreme Court Term in Review | With keynote speaker Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog. | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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9th Annual Templeton Lecture: Competition and the Constitution | With keynote speaker Christopher DeMuth, Michael Wachter, and Daniel Gross. | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transparency and Open Government | With Thomas E. Mills, Acting Deputy Archivist of the United States, and The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Bill Marimow. | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1861: The Civil War Awakening | Featuring historian Adam Goodheart and Penn Professor Richard R. Beeman. | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Is National Security? | Featuring former National Security Advisor and National Constitution Center Visiting Scholar Richard Allen and University of Pennsylvania Law professor Deborah Pearlstein. | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Prohibition | Featuring filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. | 5/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Encore: How Your Next Career Can Change the World | Social entrepreneur Marc Freedman urges people to rethink their civic connections and to do work that matters, helping Americans realize the vision of the founders – an engaged citizenry. | 5/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Putting the 14th Amendment to the Test | Jeff Greenfield, senior political correspondent for CBS News, moderates this timely program addressing the issue of immigration reform and birthright citizenship with Fellows of the Peter Jennings Project and distinguished guests John C. Eastman, Daryl Me | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Call to Action: A Congressional Town Hall Meeting | Featuring members of the U.S. House Chaka Fattah (D-PA/2), Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA/8), Jim Gerlach (R-PA/6), Pat Meehan (R-PA/7) and John Runyan (R-NJ/3). | 3/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Donald Rumsfeld: Known and Unknown | Marking the first stop on his highly-anticipated national book tour, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld joins the National Constitution Center for a conversation with historian Michael Beschloss about previously undisclosed details and insights abou | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition | Author Dan Okrent in a conversation with National Constitution Center CEO David Eisner about his new book, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which tells the fascinating history of Prohibition and its broader constitutional implications. | 12/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel | Stengel discusses the current state of media and his tenure as the leader of the National Constitution Center from 2004-2006 with David Eisner, current President & CEO. Program recorded on 11/15/10. | 12/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What is National Security? | A two part series with National Constitution Center Visiting Scholar Richard V. Allen. | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Citizenship | A special Veterans Day program on the importance of active citizenship with social entrepreneur Alan Khazei, Senator Harris Wofford, and David Eisner, President & CEO of the National Constitution Center. | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ron Chernow on George Washington | Award-winning historian Ron Chernow interviewed by Dr. Steve Frank, Chief Interpretive Officer at the National Constitution Center. | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephen Breyer on Democracy | An interview by Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent for the New York Times. | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Supreme Court Fall '10 Preview | Featuring legal experts and court watchers Lyle Denniston, Geoffrey Stone, and Helgi Walker. | 10/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rome Reborn on Western Shores | With historian and author Eran Shalev and Daniel Richter, Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Supreme Court Term in Review | Featuring veteran Supreme Court correspondent Lyle Denniston, former Solicitor General Gregory Garre and NAACP LDF President John Payton. | 8/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic | With journalist and author David Howard. | 8/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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President Obama: Year One | With Jonathan Alter, bestselling author and national political reporter for Newsweek and NBC. | 7/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The War Lovers | With Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas and Sean Wilentz, Professor of History at Princeton University. | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Empire! | With scholars Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Charles Maier, and Timothy Parsons. | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lawrence H. Summers delivers the 2010 Templeton Lecture on Economic Liberties and the Constitution. | With Lawrence Summers, George L. Priest, and Glenn Hubbard. | 6/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leaving a Legacy: The Departure and Replacement of Justice John Paul Stevens | An experts’ roundtable hosted by the National Constitution Center and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. | 6/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America | Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winner Jack Rakove and historian Richard Beeman. | 6/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rethinking the Second Amendment | With legal scholars Joyce Lee Malcolm, David A. Strauss and Lyle Denniston. | 5/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Road to Global Constitutionalism | With A.E. Dick Howard, White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia School of Law. | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Free Press for a New Century | With Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, and Bill Marimow, editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer. | 5/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A More Perfect Union: Confronting America's Racial Divide | Featuring Gwen Ifill, Martin Luther King, III, Michael L. Lomax, and Dr. Thomas J. Sugrue. | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Constitution and "The Long War" | A conversation about maintaining our constitutional balance in a protracted war with Yale Law School Professor Bruce Ackerman, former Army vice chief of staff General Jack Keane, Brigadier General H. R. McMaster, and moderator Terry Moran of ABC News. | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding the Children of Slaves | A conversation with Newsweek’s Sana Butler about her ten year odyssey to find and interview the last surviving children of American slaves. | 3/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Walker: Comeback America | A conversation about with the former Comptroller General of the United States about restoring fiscal Responsibility. | 3/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Reeves: Daring Young Men | A conversation about the heroism and triumph of the Berlin Airlift. | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Will of the People: The Supreme Court and the American Public | With law professors Lee Epstein, Barry Friedman, Jeffrey Rosen and SCOTUSblog's Lyle Denniston. | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aristocracy and the Founders | With Gordon S. Wood, Brown University Professor of History and Chair of the National Constitution Center’s Distinguished Scholars Advisory Panel | 1/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joan Biskupic on Justice Antonin Scalia | Veteran Supreme Court correspondent Joan Biskupic discusses her new book, American Original. | 12/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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American Aristocracy | A program presented in support of the Center's "Diana: A Celebration" exhibition. | 12/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tina Brown on Aristocracy and Celebrity | A program presented in support of the Center's "Diana: A Celebration" exhibition. | 12/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Sandel on Justice | A provocative lecture of moral and political philosophy. | 11/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Amazing Journey of American Women | Featuring New York Times columnist Gail Collins | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Moderated Conversation on Health Care | Featuring Senators Rick Santorum, Harris Wofford, and CNN's Mark Preston. | 11/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Right to Marry? Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution | Featuring David Boies, Keith Boykin, Maggie Gallagher and Glenn Stanton. | 11/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taylor Branch: The Clinton Tapes | Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch discusses his account of President Bill Clinton’s confidential diary project conducted between 1993 and 2001. | 10/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Supreme Court Preview: Changing Court, New Controversy | With Paul D. Clement, John Payton and Lyle Denniston. | 10/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Presidential Elections in Afghanistan and Iran | With Visiting Scholar Barnett Rubin and Michael Singh. | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom Ridge: The Test of Our Times | Governor Tom Ridge joins the National Constitution Center to discuss his memoir of his time as secretary of Homeland Security. | 9/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Into the Open: Architects in Conversation | Featuring designer Teddy Cruz and architecture critic Michael Sorkin. | 8/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson and the Concert That Awakened America | Raymond Arsenault tells the story of Marian Anderson, one of the most enduring and iconic figures of the Civil Rights movement. | 8/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Founding Principles: The French Connection | With Visiting Scholar A.E. Dick Howard, White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia School of Law. | 8/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The States of the Economy | With State Senator Don Balfour from Georgia; Joe Hackney, the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; and David Thornburgh, Executive Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government. | 7/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Supreme Court Review | With Lyle Denniston, Miguel A. Estrada, Dahlia Lithwick, and Richard H. Pildes. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life, Liberty and Property: Four Years After the Kelo Decision | Featuring investigative journalist Jeff Benedict, author of Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage, and attorneys Brian Blaesser and Scott Bullock. | 7/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Food of a Younger Land | Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America. | 6/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson | A conversation with author David O. Stewart. | 6/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ida B. Wells and the African American Freedom Struggle | With Historian Mia Bay and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Pamela Newkirk. | 6/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Culture That Gave Rise to the Current Financial Crisis | Featuring John C. Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, and Peter J. Wallison, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. | 6/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution | From historian Richard Beeman comes a dramatic account of the men who met in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 to design a radically new form of government. | 6/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Behind the Scenes: The Executive Response to 9/11 | Featuring Ann Compton, Andrew Card, Michael Chertoff, Douglas Feith, Timothy E. Flanigan, and Ari Fleischer. | 6/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Obama's First 100 Days | Featuring Carrie Budoff Brown, Stanley Greenberg, Byron York and John Gizzi. | 5/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitAugust Wilson and the Century Cycle | Featuring Walter Dallas, Nathaniel Norment, Jr., and a company of professional actors. | 5/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philadelphia Talks: The Controller's Race | Featuring the candidates for Philadelphia City Controller--John Braxton, Alan Butkovitz, Brett Mandel, and Al Schmidt. | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Reach: How Constitutional Ideas Travel | Featuring President Bill Clinton, Chairman of the National Constitution Center, and Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. | 5/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Legacy of 1808: Slavery and the Literary Imagination | The National Constitution Center presents three accomplished writers for a conversation examining slavery through fiction and scholarship. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Legacy of 1808: Modern-Day Slavery | A frank conversation about the existence of modern-day slavery with journalist E. Benjamin Skinner, author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution: Women and the Law | With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sherrilyn Ifill, Elena Kagan, Gene Pratter and Lynn Sherr | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Legacy of 1808: A Historical Perspective | With Visiting Scholar Martha S. Jones, Howard Ohline and Stephanie McCurry. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress with Representative Patrick Murphy | U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Murphy discusses his book, Taking the Hill: From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family | Shannon Thomas Perich, author of The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family, reveals the photographs never seen outside the Smithsonian collection shares the story of a First Family on the brink of history. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Faith, Politics and the Constitution | A conversation about the role of religion in government and the influence of religious conservatives in politics, featuring Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Peter A. Lillback. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Boom!: Personal Reflections on the Sixties and Today with Tom Brokaw | Veteran broadcaster and author Tom Brokaw discusses his new book Boom! with Andrea Mitchell. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Presidential Doodles | Featuring Professor David Greenberg and John Sebastian O’Brien, a forensic psychiatrist who has testified in a number of Philadelphia’s most noted criminal cases. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inside the Iraq War with The Washington Post’s Thomas Ricks | With Thomas E. Ricks, Military Correspondent for The Washington Post, moderated by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The NAACP Centennial | With Jabari Asim, Wendell Pritchett, Theodore Shaw and moderator Elmer Smith. | 4/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The American Presidency | With historians William Leuchtenburg, Gary May, Timothy Naftali and Sean Wilentz. | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Revolution to Evolution | A discussion about the Civil Rights revolution that led to the evolution of America's current president. | 3/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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And Justice For All | Mary Frances Berry tells the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. | 3/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Senator George McGovern on Abraham Lincoln | Senator George McGovern in a conversation with Professor Sean Wilentz about one of our nation’s greatest presidents. | 2/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of the Republican Party | With Ramesh Ponnuru and Reihan Salam | 2/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Constitution Has Left the Building | With renowned constitutional law expert Laurence H. Tribe | 1/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Legacy of 1808: Deconstructing Reconstruction | Featuring Ted Shaw, Martha Jones, and Steven Calabresi, presented in partnership with The American Constitution Society and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. | 1/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lincoln: President Elect | Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer discusses the four months between Lincoln’s election and Inauguration when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency. | 1/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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American Lion | Newsweek editor Jon Meacham reveals his remarkable biography of President Andrew Jackson. | 1/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How would you address America? | Robert Schlesinger moderates a conversation with speechwriters Mary Kate Cary and Terry Edmonds about President-elect Barack Obama's Inaugural Address. | 1/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Legacy of 1808: Delta Blues | Musician and historian Ted Gioia discusses how the Blues gave shape to contemporary music and culture with Jonny Meister, host of “The Blues Show" on WXPN. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Give Me Liberty! | Author Naomi Wolf joins the National Constitution Center to discuss her timely new book, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The National Security Constitution in an Age of Globalization | Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, delivers the 51st Annual Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture. | 11/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are American Elections Truly Democratic? | With Harvard University’s Dennis F. Thompson and Stanford Law School’s Pamela S. Karlan. | 10/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carly Fiorina on the Future of the American Economy | Featuring Bob Barr, Libertarian Party candidate for President, and the Cato Institute’s Executive Vice President David Boaz. | 10/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neither Red nor Blue: Libertarian Voters in the 2008 Presidential Election | Featuring Bob Barr, Libertarian Party candidate for President, and the Cato Institute’s Executive Vice President David Boaz. | 10/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Role of a Superpower | Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft speak with David Ignatius about foreign policy and the global challenges facing the next President of the United States. | 10/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Funding and Monitoring America’s Health | United States Senator Arlen Specter and Dr. Frank Torti, FDA Chief Scientist, discuss government’s role in evaluating and regulating America's medical products. | 10/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can Perestroika Survive? | A program that examines Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms and how that compares to the leadership of Vladimir Putin today. | 10/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philadelphia Talks: The Journey from High School to Higher Ed | Featuring a conversation with filmmaker Benjamin Herold and First Lady of Philadelphia Lisa Nutter. | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Edwards and the Future of American Healthcare | Elizabeth Edwards shares her thoughts on the American healthcare system and the policies of the presidential candidates. | 9/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the Eve of the Olympics: The United States and China | The National Constitution Center presents a discussion about the complicated, and often fraught, relationship between the United States and China. | 8/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Brookhiser: George Washington's Leadership | Journalist and historian Richard Brookhiser discusses leadership and America’s first president. | 8/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitRobert Schlesinger: White House Ghosts | Veteran Washington reporter Robert Schlesinger discusses the crucial and often hidden role played by presidential speechwriters. | 7/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Howard Fineman: The Thirteen American Arguments | Howard Fineman, the highly respected political journalist, joins the National Constitution Center to discuss his absorbing new work of American history, journalism, and analysis. | 7/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Legacy of 1808: The Lincoln and Douglas Debates | Historian Allen Guelzo discusses the debates that made Lincoln a national figure and defined the slavery issue that would bring our country to Civil War. | 7/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Legacy of 1808: The Emancipation Proclamation Defined | Leading scholars Harold Holzer and Robert F. Engs presents two perspectives on this iconic document. | 6/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Legacy of 1808: “Iron Ladies of Liberia” | A conversation about the history of Liberia and its current policy aimed at preventing a descent into civil war. | 6/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Baseball: The Melting Pot | A special conversation about the ways baseball has served as a reflection of our struggle to become a more inclusive society. | 6/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18 in ‘08 | College filmmaker David Burstein discusses his film 18 in '08 and the importance of voting. | 6/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Legacy of 1808: Traces of the Trade | A discussion with filmmaker Katrina Browne, director of "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North," and her cousin Thomas DeWolf, author of the new memoir "Inheriting the Trade," who together share the story of their ancestors, the largest slave-t | 5/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Red, White, Blue and Green: The Global Environment with Jeffrey Sachs | Economic advisor Jeffrey D. Sachs provides an assessment of the environmental factors that threaten global prosperity. | 5/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fair Game, with Valerie Plame Wilson | Plame Wilson provides her perspective on the public disclosure of her identity as a CIA officer and the federal investigation that led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby. | 4/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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War's Youngest Victims | Several experts in international aid and development discuss the role of citizens and their governments to protect war's youngest victims. | 4/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Red, White, Blue & Green: The Business of Going Green | Former Speaker Newt Gingrich and several business executives discuss solutions to the environmental challenges of the 21st century. | 4/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Red, White, Blue & Green: Sustainable Cities | Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter talks about improving environmental conditions in our local communities. | 4/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What's Your Primary Concern? | Political insiders Bay Buchanan, Pedro A. Cortés, Tad Devine, Chris Henick and Meredith White respond to ideas on reforming the primary process. | 4/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Choices and Challenges in the New Age of Life Sciences | Bio-ethicists and legal scholars discuss how new scientific knowledge and privacy matters will conflict in the future. | 4/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment | Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis, author of the classic Gideon’s Trumpet, shares his latest work, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate. | 2/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New American Story with Senator Bill Bradley and Matt Bai | Senator Bill Bradley and Matt Bai, national political writer for the New York Times Magazine, discuss the 2008 presidential primaries, the American political landscape and Bradley's ideas for making America a stronger, better country. | 2/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Regulating the Practice of Medicine | “Regulating the Practice of Medicine,” is a conversation with industry insiders about how business and government promote, regulate, pay for and prohibit products in the health care industry. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children Under the Constitution | A conversation marking the Fortieth Anniversary of In re Gault | 1/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ken Burns: The War | A conversation with Ken Burns, producer and director of the film series "The War." | 12/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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StoryCorps founder Dave Isay | A conversation about storytelling and Dave Isay's new book, "Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project." | 12/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mr. Jefferson's Women | Historian Jon Kukla on Thomas Jefferson’s attitudes toward women in his life as well as their place in American politics and society. | 12/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is the Constitution Outdated? | Larry J. Sabato, Michael Oreskes and Eric Lane to help answer these questions and to help determine whether our Constitution needs updating or greater fidelity to its guiding principles. | 12/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Historian Stacy Cordery on Alice Roosevelt Longworth | Cordery discusses her intelligent new biography "Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker," and the uniquely American institution of the first family. | 11/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Author Scott Turow | The National Constitution Center and 1210 AM's Michael Smerconish's Book Club were joined by best-selling author Scott Turow for a conversation about his books, Limitations and Ordinary Heroes. | 11/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit"Law & Order" and the Constitution on TV | David Black and Richard Sweren, two writers from the “Law and Order” franchise of crime shows, explore how crime writers deal with Constitutional issues. | 11/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sidney Blumenthal: How Bush Rules | Clinton presidential adviser Sidney Blumenthal discusses his book, How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime. | 11/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Battle Against Terror: The Judicial Role | Aharon Barak delivers the 50th Annual Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture on the judicial role in the battle against terror. | 11/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Voices for Liberty | Four distinguished guests join the National Constitution Center for a discussion about fighting disease and poverty on the African continent. | 11/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maintaining our Constitutional Balance | Visiting Scholars Laurence Tribe and Theodore Olson place the concept of executive privilege into legal and historical context. | 10/31/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Citizens' Constitutional Conversation with Kati Marton | Citizens' Constitutional Conversation with Kati Marton about her new book The Great Escape | 10/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women and Faith in "Caroline or Change" | With Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, Reverend Leslie Callahan, and actress Elyse McKay Taylor, a cast member of Caroline, or Change. | 10/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How a Democracy Confronts Genocide | With John Heffernan, Joan Mower, Harry Reicher and Nicholas Shalita | 9/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eyewitness: The View from Space | with Captain Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, Dr. Berrien Moore, Greg Olsen, and Derrick Pitts | 9/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philadelphia Talks: Political Reform | with Philadelphia Magazine | 9/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Land of Lincoln | Andrew Ferguson | 9/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom DeLay | "No Retreat, No Surrender" | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inside Presidential Politics | Bob Shrum | 9/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nixon and Kissinger | Robert Dallek, James Reston, Jr., and David Greenberg | 9/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Walter Isaacson on Albert Einstein | Einstein: His Life and Universe | 9/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philadelphia Talks: Leadership | An eclectic group discusses leadership. | 8/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Law and Order in 2015 | A Case Set in the Future | 7/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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General Anthony Zinni on Leadership | Philadelphia's own and leading people toward a common goal | 7/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tavis Smiley | Citizens Constitutional Conversation | 7/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Summer of 1787 | The Men Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution with David Stewart | 7/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Should Terror Detainees Have the Right to Habeas Corpus? | Barney Frank, Jon Kyl, Ted Koppel | 7/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dred Scott v. Sanford, 150 Years Later | With Ted Shaw, Akhil Reed Amar, and Earl Maltz | 6/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Knocking | An ITVS Community Cinema Event | 6/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Immigration and Economic Liberty | The 5th Annual John M. Templeton, Jr. Lecture | 6/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Presidential Courage | Historian Michael Beschloss | 6/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Doro Bush Koch on George H.W. Bush | A Liberty Medal Program | 6/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Looking Back at the Civil Rights Years | Juan Williams - NPR Senior Commentator in a Citizens Constitutional Conversation | 6/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 51% Minority | Fox News’s Lis Wiehl | 5/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Presidents, Dictators and Scoundrels | NBC’s Andrea Mitchell | 4/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is America Ready for a Woman President? | Eleanor Clift, Celinda Lake, Marie Wilson, Renee Amoore, and Joe Trippi | 3/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Supreme Court Revealed | Jeffrey Rosen and Jan Crawford Greenburg | 3/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Washington: Devout or Deist? | What were George Washington's religious beliefs? | 3/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Enemy at Home with Dinesh D'Souza | What Responsibility Does the Cultural Left Bear for 9/11? | 3/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Washington Game: Who Has the Power? | Laurence Tribe, Theodore Olsen, Jeffrey Toobin | 3/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Other Battle | Wartime Civil Liberties | 2/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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American Girl Week: Author Valerie Tripp | Author of the popular American Girl series. | 1/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philadelphia Talks: Crime, Guns and Murder | Lynne Abraham, Sylvester Johnson, Lawrence Sherman, Dorothy Johnson-Speight, Gregory Gilderman, Anthony Green | 1/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inside Look at the White House Response to 9/11 | John Yoo and War by Other Means | 12/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mann and Ornstein on Our Broken Congress | Where did the Congress go wrong, and why? | 12/18/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John McCain Town Hall Meeting | Senator John McCain speaks with author and radio personality Michael Smerconish | 12/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008 Presidential Campaign Forecast | Master Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and expert Republican strategist Ed Rollins, moderated by renowned journalist Margaret Carlson | 12/4/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Presidential Afterlives | Presidents after leaving office, with authors Mark Updegrove and Patricia O'Toole, and journalists Jennifer Senior and Todd S. Purdum | 11/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Way to Win | Mark Halperin of ABC News and The Washington Post's John Harris | 11/16/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | New Yorker writer and Looming Tower author Lawrence Wright | 11/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Behind the Closed Doors of the 9/11 Commission | 9/11 Commission Co-Chairs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, with Looming Tower author Lawrence Wright | 9/8/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sports Talk with WPEN | Examine the changing landscape of sports in the United States | 8/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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76ers President Billy King | From the Negro Leagues to the Front Office | 8/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babe Ruth: The Big Bam | With Leigh Montville | 7/28/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Breaking Barriers: Gay in the NFL | Esera Tuaolo | 6/28/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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JFK and Civil Rights | Nick Bryant - The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality | 6/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPhilly Talks: 2007 Mayor's Race | Philadelphia's 2007 Mayoral campaign and who will run. | 6/15/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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American Gospel with Newsweek's Jon Meacham | AMERICAN GOSPEL: God, the Founding Fathers and the Making of a Nation | 6/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Brooks | One of the most prominent voices in conservative politics in America today. | 6/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Politics of Sports | Politics of Sport: From Berlin to Beijing explores the marriage between sports and politics. | 6/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Brookhiser | What Would the Founders Do? | 6/5/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters | What Made the Founders Different? | 5/31/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eminent Domain Post-Kelo | Kelo v. New London, a case from the 2004-2005 Supreme Court term, has caused controversy surrounding the government's use of eminent domain and is the subject of the Fourth Annual John M. Templeton, Jr., Lecture on Economic Liberties and the Constitution. | 4/10/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights | Explore the gray areas in civil rights with Kenji Yoshino, an openly gay, Asian American Yale Law Professor. | 3/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Constitution and Domestic Spying | Richard Stengel on the constitutional struggle over domestic spying. | 2/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barney Frank | Thirteen-term United States Congressman Barney Frank shares his constitutional expertise. | 1/30/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Justice Stephen Breyer | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Stephen Breyer discusses his book, Active Liberty: Interpreting our Democratic Constitution. | 1/18/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Briefing on Judge Alito | Discussion on Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court. | 1/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Franklin Biographers: A Reunion | Franklin biographers Walter Isaacson, Gordon Wood, Stacy Schiff, and Richard Beeman. | 1/8/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dover Intelligent Design Case | Two scholars debate intelligent design in public schools. | 12/20/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Bogle: 'The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism' | Fighting Wall Street's corruption and helping investors. | 11/9/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Clarke: 'The Scorpion's Gate' | Richard Clarke talks about developments in Iraq, terrorism, homeland security, and his new geopolitical thriller. | 11/8/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDoris Kearns Goodwin: 'Team of Rivals' | Historian Goodwin illuminates how Lincoln became President. | 11/2/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amar: 'The Constitution: A Biography' | Yale Professor Akhil Reed Amar tells the life story of the Constitution. | 9/19/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cornel West: 'Democracy Matters' | The prominent Princeton professor discusses his premise that American democracy is in danger. | 9/18/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Donna Brazile: 'Cooking with Grease' | Cooking With Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics | 6/22/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pat Buchanan: 'How the Right Went Wrong' | Pat Buchanan talks about his book, 'How the Right Went Wrong' | 11/30/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joe Scarborough: 'Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day' | Joe Scarborough discusses his new book, 'Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day' | 9/21/04 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drew Gilpin Faust and Harold Holzer on the Civil War | A conversation on the anniversary of the battle that sparked the Civil War that explores the enormous human toll of the war on 19th-century America. | Free | View In iTunes | |
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Why the Constitution Still Matters: A Conversation with Richard Stengel | Featuring Richard Stengel and David Eisner. | Free | View In iTunes | |
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Can We Talk? A Conversation About Civility and Democracy in America | Featuring Lee H. Hamilton, John G. Palfrey, Jr., and Keli A. Carender. | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 217 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Excellent podcast!!
I can't say enough good things about 'We The People Stories" and the National Constitution Center's efforts in putting this podcast out. This is a series of interesting and intelligent debates and discussions of founding fathers, current events, the political landscape, etc. and they are done in such a way that I once I listened to the first cast I downloaded, which happened to be Cornel West on Democracy Matters, I quickly downloaded the rest and am in the process of listening raptly to each and every one. I highly recommend this podcast and look forward to more episodes!
Digital Debates
One of the best podcasts out there. Although I wish the subject matter did not revolve around authors selling their books quite so much, the general level of discourse is exceedingly high and of great interest to anyone interested in constitutional history or the great issues of the day. The recent discussion by Slade Gordon and Richard Benveniste (of the 9/11 Commission) on the status of their recommendations as well as their observations on Katrina was fascinating. These podcasts are typically an hour, but an hour that flies by!
Review of Digital Debates
This is one of the more interesting podcasts available. The podcast was originally named "Constitutional Conversations" and included very interesting and diverse perspectives on the role of Constitutional freedom in contemporary American culture. Since then, it has changed to a more general discussion on topics relevant to the US today including politics, economics, racial justice (or injustice), and more. I highly recommend this podcast to anyone who is genuinely interested in understanding others' viewpoints on American society and culture.
