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We the People by Jill Lepore The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades--and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths.   Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding--the anniversary, too, of the first state constitutions--We the People offers a wholly new history of the Constitution. "One of the Constitution's founding purposes was to prevent change," Lepore writes. "Another was to allow for change without violence." Relying on the extraordinary database she has assembled at the Amendments Project, Lepore recounts centuries of attempts, mostly by ordinary Americans, to realize the promise of the Constitution. Yet nearly all those efforts have failed. Although nearly t...

Learn about the history of Native Americans. Go to the guide. See all Native American Guides or all Native American news.  Featured Resources * Stream videos from PBS on Films on Demand like Fight No More Forever: The West,  N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear, or First Peoples Americas. How to Use Films on Demand (FOD). * Read one of our great eBooks in our Native American Collection on Libby like The Night Watchman by Louise Eldrich (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner) by Sherman Alexie or the classic Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian Story of the American West. How to Use Libby eBooks. * Read eBooks from our  Ebook Central Collections like Historic Native Peoples of Texas, Inconvenient Indian : A Curious Account of Native People in North America or Our Stories Remember : American Indian History, Culture, and Values through Storytelling. How to Use Ebook Central * Get print books l...