In this lecture, Lucas Morel argued that the Emancipation Proclamation was a call to Americans, black and white, to think and act as a free, self-governing people. A constitutional people.

The post-partisan era President Obama promised did not materialize. In this lecture, Professor Sid Milkis explained how we got here, and why it matters.

Boston College professor Shep Melnick looked at the surprising link between civil rights advances and government growth over the past 50 years, and the federal and state judges who have quietly shepherded both.