National Constitution Center

In this episode, Julie Silverbrook, chief content and learning officer at the National Constitution Center, and Civic Parenting co-host Lindsey Cormack, discuss how families can make civic learning part of everyday life, learning together with curiosity and humility, while helping children build civic know-how, ask questions, engage with different perspectives, and participate in their communities.

Every year on September 17, the National Constitution Center celebrates Constitution Day—the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Students and teachers are invited to experience history in action through engaging programs, hands-on activities, and unforgettable experiences that bring America’s founding story to life.

The First Amendment and Artificial Intelligence 1:15 p.m. In person and online Join us for a special keynote conversation examining the intersection of the First Amendment and artificial intelligence. Technology and constitutional scholar Jonathan Zittrain and Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School Ellen Goodman will examine how constitutional values can help guide emerging technologies and what the future of free expression looks like in the digital age.

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Pennsylvania’s Founding: How a City and a Colony Shaped America’s Civic DNA invites visitors to explore an earlier chapter in the American story—the founding of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia and their enduring influence on the nation’s civic ideals.

In this episode, Julie Silverbrook, chief content and learning officer at the National Constitution Center, and Lindsey Cormack sit down with Aralee Dorough, Nina Lynn, and Lisa Maxwell, three women with deep personal ties to Schoolhouse Rock! who are working to preserve, celebrate, and extend the legacy of this beloved educational series.

Thomas Lynch Jr. came from a prominent South Carolina family, and he replaced his father at the Second Continental Congress, as one of the youngest signers. Thomas Lynch Jr. | Signer of the Declaration of Independence 2:16 Thomas Lynch Jr. was born in 1749, the only son of a prosperous rice planter. He was raised by a politically-active father who represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress until a cerebral hemorrhage paralyzed him in February of 1776.

Timothy Sandefur joins to discuss his new book, Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence, a fast-paced intellectual history that traces how John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries transformed centuries of political thought into the revolutionary principles of the Declaration of Independence—and why those principles still matter today.

Full Text Gentlemen. While I receive, with much satisfaction, your Address replete with expressions of affection and esteem; I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you, that I shall always retain a grateful remembrance of the cordial welcome I experienced in my visit to Newport, from all classes of Citizens. The reflection on the days of difficulty and danger which are past is rendered the more sweet, from a consciousness that they are succeeded by days of uncommon prosperity and security.

Summary Roger Sherman voted for Lee’s resolution of independence and served on the committee to draft the Declaration. Sherman proposed the Connecticut Compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Roger Sherman | Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution 3:33 Biography Roger was the second of seven children born to William and Mehetabel Sherman. Soon after his birth, his parents moved the family from Newton, Massachusetts to Stoughton.

About the Civic Education for Rural and Remote Communities Fellowship The National Constitution Center’s Civic Education for Rural and Remote Communities (CERRC) Fellowship has welcomed its first cohort of educators who will work to expand access to constitutional learning and civil dialogue in rural and remote areas across the United States.