NYU Law professor Melissa Murray gives context and commentary on the nation's founding document in her new book The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader.

Those of us who have been involved in cultural issues in recent decades know that each time a Supreme Court seat comes open, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Peachtree first released Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today, back in September 2017, the Trump administration was still in its early ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and ...

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 ...

It is easy to thinkof one issue at a time, or one court case at a time. But how is the constitution– and the courts that have such a responsibility to make the constitution work– actually doing?The ...