In the Beginning (Part 1)

Duration: 1200 Feet approx

Year Published: 1987

Complete Record: Features discussions between Bill Moyers and three historians about the roots of the Constitution and its impact on our society since its writing. Michael Kammen, Pulitzer Prize winner and professor of history at Cornell University, discusses the Constitution's place and role as a symbol in American life; Forrest McDonald, professor of history at the University of Alabama, talks about the intellectual origins of the Constitution; and Olive Taylor, professor of history at Howard University, discusses black Americans and others who were not part of the Constitution.