Hello friends, welcome. So excited that you're here. I am joined by Carey Sawner today, and you are going to want to stick around for this conversation because she works at the National Constitution Center, and we are going to talk first of all about the Constitution, but all about civic education, all about United States history, if you are a parent, if you are a teacher, if you are somebody who is interested in any of these topics, you are going to love this one.

So let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting.

Well, I am very excited today to be chatting with Carey Sawner. First of all, I love the work you do. I love the National Constitution Center, and I'm very excited to hear from you, so I appreciate your time today.

I'm excited to be here. I feel like we are all friends. I'm very excited to be here. I'm excited to be here. I feel like we are all friends.

I'm very excited to hear from you. So I appreciate your time today.

I'm excited to be here. I feel like we are all big fans of yours, and we work with teachers across the country. So we're always talking about you, and how much we learn from your program, and how much we just compliments what we do. So huge fan over here. Thank you for having me.

I want to start like, okay, first of all, you know, not everybody knows what the Constitution Center is. Is it a place where the Constitution is? Is it boring?

Those are the two questions in people's minds today, Carey.

I will help alleviate that number one. It is not boring. Look, it is, but that is totally okay if people get that vibe because we are a museum in Philadelphia, but we're a national organization.

And so where you see it is sometimes like, people will walk in with a little bit of like, oh, you know, my mom drug me here or my cousin made me come.

And they walk out like skipping and you hear, go, that was really fun. And you also hear like the surprise in their voice. And I'm like, see, we're not boring. We're not stuffing. We're not dusty.

You don't need a degree in constitutional law to visit us. It's not an a library where you have to be silent the entire time you're here.

They would never hire a lot of loud educators like myself if we were allowed to be quiet, but you're right. When people are quiet in our exhibits, I'm like, no, no, no, this is about talking. This is about sharing ideas and thoughts and having conversations with each other.

The Constitution is very energetic. So we should be energetic when we're talking about it. I love that. Okay. So the National Constitution Center is a museum. And what kind of exhibits can one find there?

And we're going to visit the actual physical museum. So it is absolutely beautiful. It's on the most historic square mile in America. So if you ever come to Philadelphia and you see Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, we're right beside them.

We're literally lined up with them. When you walk through our doors, you can go into an exhibit on the moment of the signing of the Constitution. And all of the statues of the men that were there who signed it and the three dissenters who refused.

We have the Bill of Rights. We have the Constitution. We have the 14th Amendment, the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment and the 19th Amendment. So we have all those amazing artifacts, but it really is the story of we, the people.

It's the story of the people who helped write that Constitution and the story of the people who weren't really included in that Constitution in their fight to ensure that we were all included.

So my favorite exhibit is the Reconstruction exhibit. It is the first permanent exhibit in the United States devoted to Reconstruction. It's a time period after the Civil War, three major amendments. And it is powerful. It is so moving. And it is like American history. You got like major highs where you're cheering. And also major lows where you're in tears. But it is really the story of us.

And it's really exciting. And now you really want to come visit me there. We're redoing our main exhibit because it's our 20th anniversary. And the first exhibit will open this September. And it's on the first amendment and the five freedoms of the first amendment. So new stuff coming to you.

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