Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, August 21, 2020.
Prominent public historian Jon Meacham shares his reflections on our founding document’s lasting power.
Meacham is a presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A contributing editor at Time, Meacham is the author of numerous books, a former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, and served as Newsweek’s managing editor from 1998 to 2006 and editor from 2006 to 2010.
This program is made possible by The Susan Hirt Hagen Lectures Fund.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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