National Constitution Center Virtual Event: American Literature and the Constitution

5/12
Add to Calendar 2021-05-12 11:00:00 2021-05-12 12:00:00 National Constitution Center Virtual Event: American Literature and the Constitution Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/american-literature-and-constitution - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
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Law professors Bernadette Meyler of Stanford University and Alison LaCroix of the University of Chicago Law School and co-editor of the new book, Cannons and Codes: Law, Literature, and America's War, and others for a discussion exploring the ways American literature—including the works of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others—has intersected with the Constitution and American democracy from the nation’s founding, to the Civil War, and beyond. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.