University Constitution Day Lecture

The Program in American Studies presents the University’s annual Constitution Day lecture, commemorating the September 17, 1787 signing of the United States Constitution and exploring permutations of constitutional law to the present day.

Photo of Keith E. Whittington

2020 Lecture

Keith E. Whittington traces abolitionists’ battle for free speech
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Photo of George F. Will. Photo by Victoria Will

2019 Lecture

George F. Will asks “Is Constitution Day Unconstitutional?”
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Photo of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, ca. 1917-1919

2018 Lecture

Desmond Jagmohan explores “Ida B. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign”
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Poster Gallery

Posters advertising the 2020, 2019 and 2018 Princeton University Constitution Day lecture

Princeton University Constitution Day Lectures include, in 2020, “Freedom of Thought and the Struggle to End Slavery” by Keith E. Whittington; in 2019, “Is Constitution Day Unconstitutional?” by George F. Will; and in, 2018, “Constituting Justice: Ida B. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign,” by Desmond Jagmohan.