Guest Author
Rachel Shelden
Pennsylvania State University — Associate Professor of History; Director, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Member of the Historians Council on the Constitution
Professor Shelden is a scholar of 19th-century America. Her work focuses on political and intellectual history, law and constitutionalism, and the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Members of the Historians Council on the Constitution are not employees of the Brennan Center for Justice.
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