reconstructed
A podcast lifting up the many hands that made our Constitution
You might think you know who wrote the Constitution. Maybe (rich, white, male) politicians like George Washington and James Madison spring to mind. But that's only half the story.
It misses the Black men and women and white abolitionists who rewrote the Constitution after the Civil War. And it leaves out the immigrants, workers, women, and queer folks who made the reconstructed Constitution theirs.
From the First Amendment, to immigration, to education, few areas of law have been untouched by Reconstruction and the social movements that came after it.
Reconstructed paints a fuller picture of the many hands that made our Constitution, and explores what their legacies mean for us today.
A Nation of immigrants? with karla mckanders
William M. Carter, Jr. is the Judge J. Quint Salmon and Anne Salmon Chaired Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He specializes in constitutional law, civil rights, race and the law, and civil litigation. An award-winning teacher, he has been selected as Professor of the Year by vote of the student body on four separate occasions. Carter is widely considered to be one of the leading experts on the Thirteenth Amendment and racial discrimination.
The Second Founding and the first amendment with william M. Carter, jr.
William M. Carter, Jr. is the Judge J. Quint Salmon and Anne Salmon Chaired Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He specializes in constitutional law, civil rights, race and the law, and civil litigation. An award-winning teacher, he has been selected as Professor of the Year by vote of the student body on four separate occasions. Carter is widely considered to be one of the leading experts on the Thirteenth Amendment and racial discrimination.