Mark Peterson
Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University and author of The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution, specializing in early American history and the role of land and institutions in constitutional development.
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May 9, 2026 • 1h 6min
Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Mark Peterson, Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale and historian of early America, explores the Constitution’s medieval land-based roots and its evolution. He traces ties to the Domesday Book, the role of territorial expansion, and how industrialization and urbanization strained an agrarian framework. The conversation flags the widening gap between a static text and a changing nation.
May 9, 2026 • 1h 6min
Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Mark Peterson, Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale and expert on early American institutions, traces a thousand-year constitutional arc from medieval land systems to modern crisis. He explores land and population as drivers of constitutional change. He examines expansion, slavery, Reconstruction, industrialization, and why amendment is so difficult. He calls for built-in renovation and stronger local representation.
May 9, 2026 • 1h 6min
Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Mark Peterson, Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale and author specializing in early American land and institutions, reframes the constitution as a relationship linking land, people, government, and text. He traces roots to Domesday and medieval England. He shows how land rules shaped expansion, Indigenous dispossession, and why a written constitution struggles with modern urban, democratic realities.
