Mercy Otis Warren: The Pen That Pressed for the Bill of Rights
Civics In A Year17 Marras 2025

Mercy Otis Warren: The Pen That Pressed for the Bill of Rights

We trace the life and ideas of Mercy Otis Warren, the writer who helped secure a culture of liberty—and a Bill of Rights—without a seat at the Convention. From a rare classical education to salons with the Sons of Liberty, her pen shaped policy and public virtue. • Mercy Otis Warren’s early education and family background • Hosting and influencing the Sons of Liberty network • Friendship with John Adams and first published poem • Plays, poems, essays, and a pioneering Revolution history • An...

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How The U.S. Capitol Historical Society Keeps Democracy Real

How The U.S. Capitol Historical Society Keeps Democracy Real

The U.S. Capitol is one of the most recognizable buildings in the world, but many Americans don’t realize there’s an organization dedicated to preserving its story and turning that history into practi...

10 Kesä 23min

Elizabeth Willing Powel

Elizabeth Willing Powel

A woman in Philadelphia tells George Washington, plainly, that the country needs him to serve again and she does not write for personal gain. That single moment opens a much bigger story about how inf...

9 Kesä 23min

Social Media And Modern Elections

Social Media And Modern Elections

A single TikTok can redefine a candidate faster than a week of traditional ads, and that reality is changing American elections in real time. We sit down with educator Spencer Burrows to trace how cam...

8 Kesä 24min

D-Day: What Does Courage Look Like When History Is Watching

D-Day: What Does Courage Look Like When History Is Watching

D-Day gets reduced to a date and a diagram, but the truth is messier, riskier, and far more human. We sit down with historian Dr. Michael Butler to talk about June 6, 1944 not just as the Normandy inv...

5 Kesä 27min

The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket

The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” sounds like a secret back hallway of law and that’s exactly why it triggers so much public suspicion. We sit down with Spencer Burrows, an 11th grade dean, AP US Go...

4 Kesä 26min

How Eleanor Roosevelt And JFK Turned Conflict Into Partnership

How Eleanor Roosevelt And JFK Turned Conflict Into Partnership

Eleanor Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy don’t sound like a natural pairing and that’s exactly why we wanted to sit with this story. We talk with presidential historian Barbara Perry of UVA’s Miller Cent...

3 Kesä 35min

Jackie Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier

Jackie Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier

A First Lady can’t sign bills, command troops, or issue executive orders, yet Jacqueline Kennedy still reshaped American civic life. We sit down with Barbara Perry, presidential historian at the Unive...

2 Kesä 31min

Dolly Madison’s Hidden Power

Dolly Madison’s Hidden Power

Dolly Madison is famous for saving a portrait, but that’s the smallest part of her story. We sit down with Dr. Lindsay Cormack, political scientist and Director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institu...

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