In their final week with us, best-selling authors Walter Isaacson and Joseph Ellis discuss the 4th, 5th, and 10th amendments.

Week nine examines the origins of the Bill of Rights. Isaacson and Ellis engage in a discussion regarding the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd amendments, with special focus on the always controversial 2nd amendment.

Week eight of Our American Values focuses on three of the most famous words in our Constitution, “We, The People.” This week analyzes the great minds behind the editing of this famous document, and how specific words came to be the source of authority for the people to govern.

Welcome to week seven! This week, historian Joe Ellis and Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson chat through Article 3 of the Constitution and how it led to proportional representation.

We’ve reached week six! In this week’s conversation, Isaacson and Ellis explore how the compromises over slavery set America on a dangerous path toward The Civil War.

The official hallway point of Our American Values series. Just as it had at the time independence was declared, differences over slavery again threatened to upend the American experiment.

Week four of our series focuses on the role of the president in our new nation. George Washington was the obvious choice at the Constitutional Convention, but still, so many questions needed answers. What was expected of him? How would the office be defined? And how would it be delimited so that others might one day fill it?

Week three of our series focuses on one of the hardest-fought struggles at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention: balancing the democratic impulse felt by some Founders against the genuine fear of the popular will felt by others.

We The People. A deep dive into the document that shaped a blossoming nation.

The 1787 Constitutional Convention was like a sporting event in that, “You can’t tell the players without a program.”