Bill of Rights in Action - Teach Democracy

		Many lessons on U.S. history, world history, and government from BRIA, Teach Democracy's quarterly curricular magazine. We have published this tremendous resource since 1967, and we continually add to the archive. This latest issue starts a new series, reflecting our recent name change from Constitutional Rights Foundation to Teach Democracy.

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BRIA, Vol. 1:4, 2024 Login to Download PDF

Picking a President: The Nomination Process Across American History
Alice Piper’s Fight for Educational Equality
Supreme Court Highlights 2024

BRIA, Vol. 1:3, 2024 Login to Download PDF

The Spanish Civil War: Prelude to World War
The BRICS and the 21st Century World Economy
The Church Committee and the Crisis of Public Distrust

BRIA, Vol. 1:2, 2024 Login to Download PDF

Does the Constitution Establish a Republic or a Democracy? A Supreme Court History
Jeanette Rankin: A Pioneer for Peace
AI and the Future of the World

BRIA, Vol. 1:1, 2023 Login to Download PDF

Emancipation Day: Past and Present
Endangered Species Act at 50 Years
The Constitution, Reconstruction, and Race-Conscious Admissions
BRIA’s Longtime Writer Carlton Martz

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Bill of Rights in Action, Vol. 38:3/4, 2023 Login to Download PDF

The ‘Business Plot’ to Overthrow FDR
The Struggle for the Rights of Disabled Persons
Supreme Court Highlights

Bill of Rights in Action, Vol. 38: 2, 2023 Login to Download PDF

The United States, China, and Taiwan
The Haymarket Affair
Ranked-Choice Voting: Choosing One Candidate or Many?

Bill of Rights in Action, Fall 2022 (38:1) Login to Download PDF

The Bill of (Twelve) Rights: Contingency and the Constitution
Tlaxcalan: The Indigenous Democracy of Mexico

Bill of Rights in Action, Spring/Summer 2022 (37:3) Login to Download PDF

The Global Refugee Crisis
Supreme Court Highlights
Federal Agencies and Public Policy
Indonesia's Struggle for Democracy

Bill of Rights in Action, Winter 2022 (37:2) Login to Download PDF

Yugoslavia: A Divided Land
Mother Jones: ‘The Most Dangerous Woman in America’
What Is Seditious Conspiracy?

Bill of Rights in Action, Fall 2021 (37:1) Login to Download PDF

The Senate Filibuster: Abolish, Keep, or Reform?
The Life and Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
Buddhism in China

Bill of Rights in Action, Summer 2021 (36:4) Login to Download PDF

Jury of Your Peers
Pride Pioneer: Frank Kameny and the Early Gay Rights Movement
Brazil and the Future of the Amazon

Bill of Rights in Action, Spring 2021 (36:3) Login to Download PDF

Hannah Arendt and the ‘Banality of Evil'
Unequal Treatment? The Constitution and Religious School Funding
Should the Federal Government Guarantee a Basic Income for All?

Bill of Rights in Action, Winter 2021 (36:2) Login to Download PDF

American Indian Sovereignty
Police Reform After the Death of George Floyd
The Last Nuclear Treaty

Bill of Rights in Action, Fall 2020 (36:1) Login to Download PDF

Turning Points in Presidential Campaign Advertising
Workplace Equality for LGBT People: Bostock v. Clayton County
Heian Japan and The Tale of Genji

Bill of Rights in Action, Summer, 2020 (35:4) Login to Download PDF

The Election 1980
South Africa: Confronting the Country's Apartheid Past
Leave or Remain: Brexit in the UK

Bill of Rights in Action, Spring, 2020 , (35:3) Download PDF

Impeachment and the Case of Andrew Johnson
The Kurds: Straddling the Map of the Middle East
'Every Man a King': Huey Long's Troubled Populism

Bill of Rights in Action, Winter, 2020 (35:2) Login to Download PDF

Haiti’s Slave Revolt and War for Independence
Remembering John Brown
What is Treason? The Aaron Burr Case

Bill of Rights in Action, Fall, 2019 (35:1) Login to Download PDF

The Census in U.S. History (Supplemental Webcast on the Census in U.S. History.)
Anne Hutchinson: Midwife of Religious Freedom
270 Votes to Win: The Electoral College in the United States

Democratic Struggles, Summer, 2019 (34:4) Login to Download PDF

The Arab Spring and the Challenge of Nation-Building
Purged From the Voter Rolls: Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute
Suppressing the Vote

Beneath the Surface, Spring 2019 (34:3) Login to Download PDF

Ida Tarbell and the Muckrakers
The Anglo-Zulu War and British Imperialism
Will the Mueller Probe End With a Constitutional Crisis?

Law and Protection, Winter 2019 (34:2) Login to Download PDF

Journalism Under Siege
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
Islamic Science in the Middle Ages

Science Matters, Fall 2018 (34:1) Login to Download PDF

Who Was Hypatia of Alexandria?
Cotton Mather and Boston’s Smallpox Inoculation Fight
Global Warming and the Paris Agreement

Uncertain Times, Summer 2018 (33:4) Login to Download PDF

Guns and School Safety: What Is the Best Way Forward?
Automation and the American Worker
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Facing Challenges, Spring 2018 (33:3) Login to Download PDF

Ida B. Wells and Her Crusade for Racial Justice
The Revolutions of 1848
The Iran Nuclear Deal and Its Critics

Flashpoints, Winter 2018 (33:2) Download PDF

What Should the U.S. Do About North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons?
The Great Sioux War: Land, Gold, and a Broken Treaty
The Dispute Over the South China Sea

Democracy in the Balance, Fall2017 (33:1) Login to Download PDF

How Democratic Was Athens?
The Northwest Ordinance and Westward Expansion
Is Democracy in Trouble?

Challenging Ideas, Summer 2017 (32:4) Login to Download PDF

Martin Luther King and the Philosophy of Nonviolence
Vietnam Today
Free Speech on Campus: Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, and Controversial Speech at U.S. Colleges

Economic Crisis, Spring 2017 (32:3) Login to Download PDF

The Great Recession: What Were the Causes?
The Marquis de Lafayette: A Noble Revolutionary
What Caused the Great Depression and Why Did Recovery Take So Long?

Religion and Society, Winter 2017 (32:2) Login to Download PDF

Religion, Political Power, and the Thirty Years’ War
The Second Great Awakening and Reform in the 19th Century
Prayer at Government Meetings and the First Amendment

Political Strategies, Fall 2016 (32:1) Login to Download PDF

The Troubled Elections of 1796 and 1800.
Cyrus the Great and the Creation of the Persian Empire
Free Trade, Globalization, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Democracy and Elections, Summer 2016 (31:4) Login to Download PDF

Putin’s Illiberal Democracy
Harry Truman and the Election of 1948
Elections, Money, and the First Amendment

Political Conflict, Spring 2016 (31:3) Login to Download PDF

The Election of 1912
The Great Rivalry: Disraeli vs. Gladstone
Edward Snowden, the NSA, and Mass Surveillance

Critical Concerns, Winter 2016 (31:2) Login to Download PDF

Police Body Cameras and the Use of Force
Abolitionists and the Constitution
Tolerance: Voltaire and the Spirit of the Enlightenment

Breaking New Grounds, Fall 2015 (31:1) Login to Download PDF

James Madison and the Bill of Rights
Hatshepsut: How a Woman Took the Throne

The 1960s, Summer 2015 (30:4) Login to Download PDF

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the U.S. Supreme Court
Cuba at the Crossroads
Mao Zedong and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

The Law, Spring 2015 (30:3) Login to Download PDF

Saved From the Gallows — The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
The Great Qing Code: Law and Order During China’s Last Dynasty
The Free Exercise of Religion in America

Leadership, Winter 2014 (30:2) Login to Download PDF

'Go Boldly!': Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War
Sam Houston: A Study in Leadership
Margaret Thatcher and Conservative Politics in England

War & Policy, Fall 2014 (30:1) Login to Download PDF

A Fire Waiting to be Lit: The Origins of World War I (Click here for the enhanced version of this article.)
The War of 1812: America's First Declared War
The War in Afghanistan: What Should America’s Policy Be?

War and the Military, Summer 2014 (29:4) Login to Download PDF

The Chinese Civil War: Why Did the Communists Win?
The Cold War: How Did It Start? How Did It End?
Women in the Military

Conflicts, Spring 2014 (29:3) Login to Download PDF

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Sudan, Imperialism, and the Mahdi’s Holy War
Are Bible Readings Ever Allowed in Public Schools?

Making a Difference, Winter 2014 (29:2) Login to Download PDF

Queen Elizabeth I: Religion and the State
Harriet Tubman and the End of Slavery
Affirmative Action in American Colleges After Fisher v. Texas

The Governance, Fall 2013 (29:1) Login to Download PDF

Puritan Massachusetts: Theocracy or Democracy?
Who Was the Real Cleopatra?
How the First State Constitutions Helped Build the U.S. Constitution

The Environment, Summer 2013 (28:4) Login to Download PDF

Conservation, Preservation, and the National Parks
Rachel Carson and the Modern Environmental Movement

Industrialization and Labor, Spring 2013 (28:3) Login to Download PDF

The Industrial Revolution
The Pullman Strike and Boycott
American Labor Unions: Yesterday and Today

Origins, Winter 2012 (28:2) Login to Download PDF

Hamilton, Jefferson, and Their Fight for the Future of America
Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
The Electoral College

Health-Care Reform, Fall 2012 (28:1) Login to Download PDF

The Continuing Struggle for U.S. Health-Care Reform
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision on the Affordable Care Act
Health Care: What Do Other Countries Do?

Facing Crisis, Summer 2012 (27:4) Login to Download PDF

FDR and the Banks
Munich and “Appeasement”
Unemployment and the Future of Jobs in America

A New Order, Spring 2012 (27:3) Login to Download PDF

Simon Bolivar: Thinker, Liberator, Reformer
J.P. Morgan, the Panic of 1907, and the Federal Reserve Act
Juan Peron: Dictator or Champion of Social Justice?

Law, Winter 2011 (27:2) Login to Download PDF

Canon Law: Medieval Europe’s Legal System
Oliver Cromwell: The Lord Protector
Calhoun and Webster: Two Visions of the Federal Union

Revolutionary Thinkers, Fall 2011 (27:1) Login to Download PDF

Thomas Paine: America’s Most Radical Revolutionary
Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law
St. Augustine and the Role of Religion in the State

Communism, Summer 2011 (26:4) Login to Download PDF

Lenin and the Russian Revolution
The Cuban Missile Crisis
North Korea: The Rogue Nation

Economic Crises, Spring 2011 (26:3) Login to Download PDF

The WPA: Putting the Nation to Work in the Great Depression
A Guide to the Federal Budget Deficit and National Debt
Tulipmania and Economic Bubbles

Population Perils Winter 2010 (26:2) Login to Download PDF

The "Black Death": A Catastrophe in Medieval Europe
The Potato Famine and Irish Immigration to America
The Debate OverWorld Population: Was Malthus Right?

Tyranny Fall 2010 (26:1) Login to Download PDF

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Plato and Aristotle on Tyranny
Nigeria: After 50 Years, Still Struggling to Be a Democracy

Reaction and Reform Summer 2010 (25:4) Login to Download PDF

The Watergate Scandal
Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism
Land, Liberty, and the Mexican Revolution

Revolution and Change Spring 2010 (25:3) Login to Download PDF

England's Glorious Revolution
John Maynard Keynes and the Revolution in Economic Thought
William Jennings Bryan, the "Great Commoner"

Building Democracy Fall 2009 (25:2) Login to Download PDF

The Major Debates at the Constitutional Convention
King and Parliament in Medieval England
Every New Generation

Environmental Issues Summer 2009 (25:1) Login to Download PDF

Are We Headed for a "Sixth Mass Extinction"?
The Columbian Exchange
What Caused Egypt's Old Kingdom to Collapse?

Reform and Change Spring 2009 (24:4) Login to Download PDF

The Teapot Dome Scandal
Woodrow Wilson's Quest to Change the World
John Stuart Mill and Individual Liberty

Communication of Ideas Winter 2009 (24:3) Login to Download PDF

Herodotus and Thucydides: Inventing History
Gutenberg and the Printing Revolution in Europe
Henry Clay: Compromise and Union

Politics Fall 2008 (24:2) Login to Download PDF

How Political Parties Began
Making It Easier to Vote vs. Guarding Against Election Fraud
The Development of Confucianism in Ancient China

Reform Spring 2008 (24:1) Login to Download PDF

Communism, Capitalism, and Democracy in China
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
John Dewey and the Reconstruction of American Democracy

Intellectual Property Winter 2008 (23:4) Login to Download PDF

The Origins of Patent and Copyrights Law
Digital Piracy
Patenting Life
The Cheating Problem

Justice Fall 2007 (23:3) Login to Download PDF

The Whiskey Rebellion and the New American Republic
Cicero: Defender of the Roman Republic
"Justice and Fairness": John Rawls and His Theory of Justice

Rights Reconsidered Summer 2007 (23:2) Login to Download PDF

Sacco and Vanzetti (Download a pdf of Sacco and Vanzetti)
Edmund Burke
Mendez v. Westminster

Free Markets and Antitrust Law Spring 2007 (23:1) Login to Download PDF

Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations
Progressives and the Era of Trustbusting
Media Mergers and the Public Interest

Making a Just Society Winter 2006 (22:4) Login to Download PDF

Stem-Cell Research: The Promise and the Pitfalls
Slavery, Civil War, and Democracy: What Did Lincoln Believe?
St. Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and the Common Good.

The Rule of Law in Dangerous Times Fall 2006 (22:3) Login to Download PDF

Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy
John Peter Zenger and the Freedom of the Press
The National Security Agency's Warrantless Wiretaps.

The Establishment of Religion Spring 2006 (22:2) Login to Download PDF

The Scopes Trial
More Monkey Trials
Turkey: An Evolving Democracy in the Middle East

Standards for the Time Winter 2005 (22:1) Login to Download PDF

The Transcendentalists in Action
Petrarch, the Father of Humanism
Is Torture Ever Justified?

Centralized vs. Decentralized Rule Fall 2005 (21:4) Login to Download PDF

The Legacy of Alexander the Great
The Articles of Confederation
The European Union: Toward a "United States of Europe"?

Economics and Democracy Summer 2005 (21:3) Login to Download PDF

Dust Bowl Exodus
The German Weimar Republic
Outsourcing Jobs to Other Countries

American Interventions Spring 2005 (21:2) Login to Download PDF

Is Iraq on the Way to Democracy?
Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal
The Boxer Rebellion in China

Executive Power Winter 2004 (21:1) Login to Download PDF

Machiavelli and The Prince
Detaining U.S. Citizens as Enemy Combatants
Jackson and Indian Removal

Religion and Society Fall 2004 (20:4) Login to Download PDF

Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening in Colonial America
Islam Divided: The Shiites and Sunnis
Should We Take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

Nation-Building Summer 2004 (20:3) Login to Download PDF

The Marshall Plan for Rebuilding Europe
Different Visions for Vietnam
U.S. Involvement in Nation-Building Before Iraq

Developments in Democracy Spring 2004 (20:2) Login to Download PDF

How Women Won the Right to Vote
Have Women Achieved Equality?
Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau on Government

Culture in Conflict Winter 2004 (20:1) Login to Download PDF

President Polk and the Taking of the West
Muslim Conquests in Europe
The Rise of Islamist Terrorist Groups

National Security and Freedom Fall 2003 (19:4) Login to Download PDF

The Patriot Act: What is the Proper Balance Between National Security and Individual Rights?
The Alien and Sedition Acts: Defining American Freedom
Plato and The Republic

Controversies Summer 2003 (19:3) Login to Download PDF

Three Visions for African Americans
"Forgotten Genocide": The Destruction of the Armenians During World War I
The Bush Doctrine

Ideas Spring 2003 (19:2) Login to Download PDF

Karl Marx: A Failed Vision of History
Social Darwinism and American Laissez-faire Capitalism
Copying Music and Movies from the Internet: "Digital Piracy" and "Fair Use"

Eastern Europe Winter 2002 (19:1)

Life Under Communism in Eastern Europe
Emerging Democracies in Eastern Europe and Russia: How Are They Doing?
Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe

The Environment Fall 2002 (18:4)

Environmental Disasters in the Cradles of Civilization
Global Warming: What Should We Do About It?
Climate Change and Violence in the Ancient American Southwest

Victims of War Summer 2002 (18:3)

Wartime and the Bill of Rights: The Korematsu Case
The "Rape of Nanking"
Compensating the Victims of War

Imperialism Spring 2002 (18:2)

The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India
Oil and National Security
The Debate Over Hawaii and an American Overseas Empire

Africa Winter 2001 (18:1)

The United States and the Barbary Pirates
AIDS in Africa
Ibn Battuta: The Greatest Traveler in the Middle Ages

Law of Empires Fall 2001 (17:4)

Clash of Empires: The Fight for North America
When Roman Law Ruled the Western World
Puerto Rico: Commonwealth, Statehood, or Independence?

Military Authority Summer 2001 (17:3)

The French Army Mutinies of World War I
Truman, MacArthur, and the Korean War
The Military Confronts the Harassment of Women and Gays

Labor Spring 2001 (17:2)

One Big Union--One Big Strike: The Story of the Wobblies
Marching with "General Ludd": Machine Breaking in the Industrial Revolution
Globalization and Worker Rights

Religious Tolerance Winter 2000 (17:1)

Should Students Have The Right to Lead Prayers at Pubic School Events?
The Persecution of the Mormons
Luther Sparks the Protestant Reformation

Innovations in Law Fall 2000 (16:4)

The Hebrews and the Foundations of Western Law
The Declaration of Independence and Natural Rights
Animal Rights

Civil Disobedience Summer 2000 (16:3)

The Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Civil Disobedience on Campus
Bringing Down an Empire: Ghandi and Civil Disobedience
The Rescue Movement: Pushing the Limits of Free Speech

Wealth and Power Spring 2000 (16:2)

King Leopold's "Heart of Darkness"
Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Monopoly
United States v. Microsoft

Matters of Principle Winter 1999 (16:1)

John Adams and the Boston Massacre
The Murder of an Archbishop
Should We Have the Right to Die?

Clash of Cultures and Law Fall 1999 (15:4)

Young People and the Internet: Issues of Censorship and Free Expression
The Law of Shi Huangdi, First Emperor of China
Laws of the Indies: Spain and the Native Peoples of the New World

Rules of War Summer 1999 (15:3)

Firestorms: The Bombing of Civilians in World War II
Choices: Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb
New Threat to Nuclear Non-Proliferation

Codes Spring 1999 (15:2)

The Code Napoleon
The Death Penalty and Human Rights: Is the U.S. Out of Step?
The Southern "Black Codes" of 1865-66

Islamic Issues Winter 1998 (15:1)

The Origins of Islamic Law
The U.S. and Iran: Time for a New Beginning?
Blasphemy! Salman Rushdie and Freedom of Expression

Rules, Policy, and Empire Fall 1998 (14:4)

Blood and Tribute: The Rise and Fall of the Aztec Empire
The Edicts of Asoka
Africa's "Second Independence" and U.S. Policy

Welfare Summer 1998 (14:3)

How Welfare Began in the United States
Welfare to Work: The States Take Charge
"The Swedish Model": Welfare for Everyone

Independence of the Judiciary Spring 1998 (14:2)

An Issue of Consent
Voters and Judges
An Independent Judiciary

Culture Clash Fall 1998 (14:1)

The Kennewick Controversies
Witch Hunt
The Battle Over Proposition 187

Separating Church and State Fall 1997 (13:4)

Separating Church and State
Religious Tolerance and Persecution in the Roman Empire
Should Government Aid Students Attending Parochial Schools?

Forensic Evidence Summer 1997 (13:3)

The Riddle of the Romanovs
DNA, Lie Detector, and Voiceprint Evidence: Does It Belong in the Courtroom?
How Reliable Are Eyewitnesses?

Controversies in the Arts Spring 1997 (13:2)

The Battle over the National Endowment of the Arts
The Suppression of Art in Nazi Germany
Music on Trial: Rock, Rap, and Responsibility

Election Issues Winter 1996 (13:1)

Political Scandals, Scoundrels, and Schemer: Are the Media Focusing on the Wrong Things?
Issues in Campaign '96
TV Attack Ads and the Voter

New Claims to Equal Protection Fall 1996 (12:4)

Equal Opportunity in the Military
Including the Disabled Student
Helen Keller
Gay Rights and the Constitution

Keeping the Peace After the Cold War Summer 1996 (12:3)

The United Nations: Fifty Years of Keeping the Peace
The Future of NATO
Do We Need a Permanent International Criminal Court?

Voting and Discrimination Spring 1996 (12:2)

South Africa: Revolution at the Ballot Box
Race and Voting in the Segregated South
Race and Representation

Journey to Equality Winter 1996 (12:1)

Black Troops in Union Blue
The Adarand Case: Affirmative Action and Equal Protection
The Mandinko of the Gambia

Issues of Terrorism Fall 1995 (11:4)

The Aftermath of Terror (Oklahoma City Bombing)
Terrorism: How Have Other Countries Handled It? How Should We?
Conspiracy Theories: Attacks on Jefferson Set the Pattern
Talk Radio: Playground for Free Speech or a Forum for Hate?

Examining the Federal Government Spring 1995 (11:3)

The Balanced Budget Amendment
The Income Tax Amendment: Most Thought It Was A Great Idea in 1913
Term-Limits Debate: Professional Politician or Citizen Legislator?

What Should We do About Crime? Spring 1995 (11:2)

"Beyond the Seas": The Transportation of Criminals to Australia
What Should We Do About Crime?
Juvenile Justice: What Should We Do With Children Who Break the Law?

The Right to an Impartial Jury and a Free Press Winter 1994 (11:1)

Is a Fair Trial Possible in the Age of Mass Media?
The Dreyfus Affair and the Press
Sex, Crime, and Jazz-Age Journalism

The U.S. Supreme Court Fall 1994 (10:4)

FDR Tries to "Pack" the Supreme Court
Should Nations Have the Right to Kidnap Criminal Suspects?
Update on the Supreme Court (Abortion Protester's, Religious Schools, and Jury Selection)

Hate Crimes Summer 1994 (10:3)