Sherman Antitrust Act
A law you can read in about five minutes still shapes some of the biggest fights in the American economy. We walk through the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 with Dr. Sean Beienberg and unpack what “res...
14 Huhti 17min
Susan B. Anthony and a Constitutional Challenge
Susan B. Anthony’s most radical move was not that she voted, it was why she believed she had every right to. After she walked into a Rochester polling place in 1872 and cast a ballot, the state treate...
13 Huhti 10min
Who Becomes President? Succession, the Vice Presidency, and Executive Power
The most fragile part of the presidency isn’t the election. It’s the moment something goes wrong and the country still needs a commander in chief, a working cabinet, and a government that doesn’t free...
13 Huhti 41min
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
We walk through Plessy v. Ferguson and how a planned railcar protest helps the Supreme Court legitimize Jim Crow through the “separate but equal” doctrine. We also dig into Justice John Marshall Harla...
2 Huhti 18min
The Lodge Bill of 1890 and the Rise of Jim Crow
The Lodge Bill of 1890 should be as famous as the Compromise of 1877, yet most of us have never heard of it. We sit down with Dr. Sean Beienberg to unpack how a federal election oversight plan, built ...
1 Huhti 13min
What the Black Man Wants by Frederick Douglass
Freedom is easy to celebrate in slogans and hard to define when the laws get written. Today we sit with Frederick Douglass at the end of the Civil War as he delivers one of the most direct speeches of...
31 Maalis 8min
How The 14th Amendment Applies The Bill Of Rights To States
The Fourteenth Amendment promises a baseline of freedom, but the Supreme Court built that promise through a long series of workarounds. We start with incorporation: how protections in the first eight ...
30 Maalis 29min
How Reconstruction Built Birthright Citizenship And Equal Protection
The Fourteenth Amendment is often treated like a simple shortcut for “civil rights,” but its real story is messier, more political, and far more useful for understanding today’s constitutional fights....
27 Maalis 17min
