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Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, delegates from each of the United States’ thirteen states assembled in Philadelphia for an event we now call the Constitutional Convention.
What do we know about the moment of the United States Constitution’s creation? What was happening around the Convention, and what issues were Americans discussing and debating as the Convention’s delegates met?
Mary Sarah Bilder, an award-winning historian and the Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, joins us to investigate the context of the United States Constitution’s creation with details from her book, Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/048
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Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, delegates from each of the United States’ thirteen states assembled in Philadelphia for an event we now call the Constitutional Convention.
What do we know about the moment of the United States Constitution’s creation? What was happening around the Convention, and what issues were Americans discussing and debating as the Convention’s delegates met?
Mary Sarah Bilder, an award-winning historian and the Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, joins us to investigate the context of the United States Constitution’s creation with details from her book, Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/048
Complementary Episodes
🎧 Episode107: Mary Sarah Bilder, Madison’s Hand
🎧 Episode 137: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Ona Judge, The Washington’s Runaway Slave
🎧 Episode 255: Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens
🎧 Episode 259: American Legal History & the Bill of Rights
🎧 Episode 276: Stephen Fried, Benjamin Rush
🎧 Episode 285: Elections & Voting in Early America
🎧 Episode 323: Michael Witgen, American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder
🎧 Episode 332: Experiences of Revolution: Occupied Philadelphia
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WHEN YOU'RE READY
🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter
👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community
LISTEN 🎧
🍎 Apple Podcasts
💚 Spotify
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CONNECT
🦋 Liz on Bluesky
👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn
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SAY THANKS
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