Online Learning Opportunities

Civil War and Reconstruction Tour

Wednesday, April 26 | 12 p.m. ET

Explore the Center’s compelling exhibit, Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equality, as one of our museum educators leads viewers through the exhibit. Learn how constitutional clashes over slavery set the stage for the Civil War, and how the nation transformed the Constitution after the war during the Reconstruction period. Along the way, you’ll hear the stories of people central to the conflict over slavery and give you an up-close look at special artifacts on display. The April tour will also take a look at some of the landmark Supreme Court cases that are key to the story of Reconstruction.  

Monthly Civil War & Reconstruction Tours made possible through the generosity of TD Bank.

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Learning About the Supreme Court Tour

Friday, April 28 | 1 p.m. ET

The Center’s education team will guide learners through The Story of We the People exhibit and Article III of the Constitution which establishes the judicial branch of government, the branch responsible for interpreting the laws. Learners will explore the judiciary at the highest level, the U.S. Supreme Court, to the lower federal courts consisting of the courts of appeals and the district courts. Students will explore the Center’s exhibits and hear stories about key court cases and how they affect our lives today. 

For Educators

Professional Learning Session: 14th Amendment and the Battle for Freedom and Equality in America

Wednesday, April 19 | 6:30 p.m. ET

During this session, participants will explore the 14th Amendment and the battles for equality in America with Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. Educators will examine its clauses and the battle over their meaning from Reconstruction to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges. We will also explore America’s first and second civil rights movements, the Constitution and women, and modern interpretations of the 14th Amendment. 

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The Legality of Abortion Pills

Last Friday, judges in Texas and Washington state handed down conflicting decisions on the legality of abortion medication pills. In Texas, a district judge invalidated the FDA’s decades-old approval of the widely used drug mifepristone. Late this Wednesday, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit partially overruled that decision by allowing mifepristone to remain available, but temporarily prevented it from being sent to by mail and limited its approved use to the first seven weeks of pregnancy. Meanwhile, in Washington state, a district judge ordered the FDA to not rollback mifepristone’s approval while litigation over the drug is ongoing. Together, the two cases create a legal debacle for the FDA, which the Justice Department has asked the Washington court to provide guidance on. Eventually, the cases may go to the U.S. Supreme Court. Thomas Jipping of The Heritage Foundation and Rachel Rebouche of the Temple University Beasley School of Law join to discuss whether mailing mifepristone violates the Comstock Act; if the FDA’s approval of the drug violated the Administrative Procedure Act; and if the district courts had jurisdiction to rule on these cases in the first place. Host Jeffrey Rosen moderates.

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