Click or tap image below to view the US Department of Education’s Constitution Day Program which included the Society The post US Department of Education’s Constitution Day Program appeared first on Supreme Court Historical Society ..read more

St. Louis — The Supreme Court Historical Society, the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, the Eastern District Court of Missouri and the Federal Bar Association, St. Louis Chapter Launch “The Supreme Court and My Hometown” Program for St. Louis Area High School Students at the Thomas F. Eagleton US Courthouse. The “Hometowns” program, a nationwide initiative, kicking-off in St. Louis, engages high school students, over the course of a semester, in an intensive study of the process and substantive issues of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in a unique an ..read more

The 2023 Series The Avalon Theatre | Washington D.C. The Supreme Court Film Series: Loving (2016) June 13, 2023 @ 8:00 p.m. (ET) The Supreme Court Film Series: On the Basis of Sex (2018) May 9, 2023 @ 8:00 p.m. (ET) The Supreme Court Film Series: Little Pink House (2017) April 11, 2023 @ 8:00 p.m. (ET) The Supreme Court Film Series: Muhammed Ali’s Greatest Fight (2013) March 14, 2023 @ 8:00 p.m. (ET) The post SCHS Presents: The Supreme Court Film Series appeared first on Supreme Court Historical Society ..read more

Henry J. Abraham. (Photo by David Skinner, 1984, UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections) The Supreme Court Historical Society announces the Henry J. Abraham Early Career Research Grant for research on the history of the United States Supreme Court. The award is named for the distinguished scholar whose numerous works on constitutional law and the judicial process have had an enduring impact on the field of Supreme Court history. Awarded on a competitive basis in June of each year, the $1,000 grant supports the research of those who are pursuing academic careers in legal history, incl ..read more

By Clare Cushman Cissy Marshall enjoying her mango deluxe bread in the East Conference Room. She contributed her recipe for the dessert to Table for 9: Supreme Court Food Traditions & Recipes. Cecilia Suyat Marshall was 4 foot 11 and could light up an entire room with her lively presence and joyful sense of humor. “Cissy,” who died on November 22, 2022, at the age of 94, will be remembered as the devoted wife of Thurgood Marshall, who served on the Supreme Court from 1967-1991, and the steward of his legacy after his death in 1993. But she was so much more: a mother, a grandmother, a s ..read more

John Bradshaw, Executive Director of the DACOR Bacon House addressing Society Trustee Jeff Minear, Executive Director James Duff and Society Staff. On Wednesday, November 16, Society Trustees David M. Rubenstein and The Honorable Theodore B. Olson, along with Professor Joel Richard Paul headlined a lively and informative Program at the Historic DACOR Bacon House. The program, which revolved around all things Supreme Court, was preceded by a reception and dinner that launched a Capital Campaign to raise funds for preservation of the Historic Building. The house is one of few remaining examples ..read more

Civic education, like all education, is a continuing enterprise and conversation. Each generation has an obligation to pass on to the next, not only a fully functioning government responsive to the needs of the people, but the tools to understand and improve it. — Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., 2019 This year marks the 101st celebration of American Education Week! Initially, this endeavor was started by the National Education Association and the American Legion when they discovered that 25% of American World War I draftees were illiterate. Over the years, numerous other organiz ..read more

A special sitting of the Supreme Court was held on Friday September 30, 2022 to mark the Investiture of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the 104th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. After taking the necessary oaths, Justice Jackson had assumed her duties in June, 2022, and this ceremonial event was held prior to her taking her seat at the Bench for the first time. These photographs and brief descriptions provide a short summary of the day. The Court posed in their first informal photograph following the ceremony. (left to right) Associate Justices Amy Coney Barret ..read more

By Jim Duff Nicole Carlson Maffei, New Director of Civic Education for SCHS Many have observed that civic education has declined considerably in the United States in recent years. Increased focus on STEM education in our schools has produced benefits, to be sure, but a corresponding reduction or, in many school districts, elimination of civic education has had a measurable adverse impact on students’ knowledge of how our three branches of government work. Our Founders believed that the best way to preserve our liberties is to have an educated public. The decline in a fundamental understand ..read more

Signing the Constitution Thirty-nine men signed a newly-drafted document, the U.S. Constitution, in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. The Society commemorated that event with a Zoom screening of its new 15-minute documentary, Marbury v. Madison: The Empowerment of the Judiciary, which tells the story of the case that first articulated the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review and thus confirmed the judicial branch as co-equal with the legislative and executive branches. The narrator of the documentary explains the facts of the complicated case clearly, and imagery from the time period—oi ..read more