Feature Stories

The Stanford Daily: Meet Jonathan Gienapp: the ‘Michael Jordan’ of the Stanford history department

Stanford University H&S: Historian Jonathan Gienapp challenges originalist interpretations of the Constitution

Stanford Report: New Stanford research reexamines the story of the U.S. Constitution’s creation

News

The New York Times: The Founding Father Who Sought a Last-Minute Deal to Avert the Revolution

The Stanford Daily: ‘America at 250’ explores U.S. history, policy on 250th anniversary

Stanford Report: Scholars explore 250 years of Declaration interpretations

Stanford Report: Stanford Law scholars discuss role of originalism in constitutional interpretation

The Stanford Daily: History professor criticizes constitutional originalism at Law School

Interviews

Claremont McKenna College’s Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom, The Forum: Interview: Jonathan Gienapp

The National Memo: The Overly Supreme Court — And Why Democracy Must Rein In Its Excessive Power

NPR's All Things Considered: The Constitution was built to allow for the few to hold so much power

Stanford News: Stanford historian discusses the Electoral College and its origins

The New York Times: What Is Trump Playing At?

Town Halls, Debates, Panels

Alliance for Civics in the Academy: Historical Thinking and Democratic Citizenship

Hoover Institution: America at 250: Classical Heritage, Western Civilization, The Future

The Center for Revitalizing American Institutions: The Declaration of Independence: History, Meaning, and Modern Impact

Brennan Center for Justice and National Constitution Center Symposium: Constitutional Meaning in the Shadow of the Articles of Confederation: Debating the Constitution

Stanford Constitutional Law Center Event: History and Originalism: A Troubled Relationship

National Constitution Center Town Hall: For or Against Constitutional Originalism?: A Debate

Brennan Center Live: The Fight Against Originalism Continues

The Civic Discourse Project: America at 250: Civic Education and Upcoming Anniversaries of the Founding

National Constitutional Center Constitution Day Event: Scholar Exchange: The Constitutional Convention

Stanford Constitutional Law Center 2023 Conference: Text and (What Kind of) History?: How Has and How Should the Supreme Court Use Text and History?: History, Techniques, and Problems

James Wilson Institute: Unlocking Constitutional Meaning: James Wilson As the Key

University of Virginia Karsh Institute of Democracy: Touchstones of Democracy: The U.S. Founding and Constitutional Culture

Stanford Constitutional Law Center 2022 Conference: Histories of Presidential Power: The First Congress and Executive Power

National Constitution Center Town Hall: The Founders' Library: Intellectual Sources of the Constitution

2019 Publius Symposium, Stanford Constitutional Law Center: The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

2019 Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium: The Politics of Constitution Making and the Federal Union

Podcasts

Legal AF: The Supreme Court vs. the Framers

Another Way: Jonathan Gienapp

Ben Franklin's World: How Independence Happened, Part 3: The Articles of Confederation

Short Circuit: Originalism at Stanford

Past Precedent: Were the Founders Originalist?

Strict Scrutiny: DOGE Runs Amok & Originalism's Ahistoricism

The Loopcast: Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique

Stanford Legal: Challenging Originalism: Putting the Electoral College, Presidential Immunity, and Recent SCOTUS Decisions into Historical Context

Ben Franklin's World: Politics and Political Culture in the Early American Republic

New Books in Law: Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique

The Legal History Podcast: History & Constitutional Originalism

Laws Dimensions: Musing on Law, Politics, and Culture: The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

Live at the National Constitution Center: The Founders' Library

Writ Large: The Constitution of the United States

The Age of Jackson: The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

New Books in History: The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

Riches & Power: The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

Your Weekly Constitutional: Madison’s Notes

Lectures

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library: The Original Debates over Constitutional Interpretation

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum: The Founders Debate the Constitution

Keynote of “The Heart of the Constitution: Exploring the Powers of Preambles” at Mathias Corvinus Collegium Center for Constitutional Politics: The Preamble’s Decline: From Foundational Text to Constitutional Ornament

Lofgren Lecture in Constitutionalism at Claremont McKenna College: History v. Originalism

Keynote of the 2024 Bissel-Heyd Symposium at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy: The Crisis of History in U.S. Constitutional Interpretation

Center for the Study of the American Constitution: The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era: Part I and Part II

Constitution 101 at James Madison’s Montpelier: The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era