Cordell Carter examines some of our country鈥檚 founding documents from 1776 to modern times. Maybe these texts can be a common point of departure for the start of deeper conversations with people who hold views different from your own. Take a deep dive into this video and texts and consider the questions: Who is 鈥渨e鈥�? How has our notion of 鈥渨e鈥� evolved? Where do we go from here?
Presented to students on October 15, 2020.
Featuring Cordell Carter, Esq.
Cordell Carter, 鈥�98, is executive director of the .
Reading for this session
(1857)
聽by Frederick Douglass
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
by J.D. Vance // The Washington Post, July 25, 2016
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, sentiments and resolutions, 1848
Eleanor Roosevelt, speech delivered September 28, 1948
U.S. Constitution, and 聽Amendments,鈥� 1789
Sojourner Truth, Women鈥檚 Convention in Akron, Ohio, speech delivered December 1851
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 鈥淲hy I am a Republican,鈥� Saturday Evening Post, April 11, 1964
Sonia Sotomayor, speech delivered October 26, 2001
Robert Bellah, 1985, selection
Francis Fukuyama, 鈥�,鈥� Stories of Peoplehood, 2018, Chapter 13, pp. 158-162, selection
Adam Kersch, The Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2019
Note: Online access to some resources is unavailable to the general public and some articles are behind a paywall. All these resources are likely available without cost via public library access.