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Welcome to the Constitution Center. Tos is such a happy day celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] nonpartisans a mission and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. I was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new boo...

Representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the civil rights movie. We are going back to our topic of origin points, with the objective of putting those events and contacts, but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. Last week we discussed brown v. Board of education, the decision, response, the impact, and also the legacy. I want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. We will not do that today. Spent time we talking about the emmett till case, the lynching of emmett till in august of 1955. We used a mix of secondary and primary sources to consider how ideologies...

Now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court. We will hear arguments in case 19 431 Little Sisters of the poor v. Pennsylvania in the consolidated case. General francisco. Mr. Chief justice, may it please the court. In 2011, the government required employers to provide Insurance Coverage for all fda approved contraception, including many religious employers who objected to the coverage, sparking years of litigation. Traditions the best of this countrys commitment to religious liberty, the government sought to resolve the issue by promulgating new rules, excepting those empl...

Article that gave you a larger focus. This is your favorite slide. What you are going to be so sick of. Representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the civil rights movie. Civil rights movement. We are going back to our topic of origin points, and get in, with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events and context, but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. Last week we discussed brown v. Board of education, the decision, response, the impact, and also the legacy. I want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. We will not do that today. On tuesday, w...

And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial his...