Past Events

• April 3, 2025

New York Gala

• 6:00 pm (EDT)
• The Plaza Hotel, New York, NY

• February 24, 2025

The Life and Times of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth

• 12:00 pm (EDT)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• February 6, 2025

You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads Angelo Herndon’s Fight for Free Speech

• 7pm (EDT)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• January 23, 2025

The Forgotten Story of Mitsuye Endo: WWII, the Supreme Court and Japanese Incarceration with Professor Amanda L. Tyler

• 12:00 pm (EDT)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• December 16, 2024

The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation 1921-1930

• 12pm (EDT)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• October 30, 2024

Calm Command: U.S. Chief Justice Melville Fuller in His Times, 1888–1910–A Conversation with Douglas Rooks

• 12:00 pm (EDT)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• October 24, 2024

Professional Development: Brown as the Beginning

• 7PM-8PM (EDT)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• October 16, 2024

Atlanta Gala

• 6:00 PM
• High Museum Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, GA

• October 9, 2024

Visiting the Supreme Court Building—A Virtual Discussion with the Court’s Curator, Matthew Hofstedt, and Deputy Curator, Nikki Peronace

• 12:00 pm (EDT)

• October 8, 2024

The Supreme Court and Mount Vernon Host A Joint Lecture Program on May 1 & October 8

• 7:00 PM
• Washington Library's Rubenstein Leadership Hall

• September 17, 2024

Constitution Day Lecture – Written and Unwritten: The Rules, Internal Procedures and Customs of the United States Courts of Appeals

• 12:00 pm (EDT)

• July 15 2024 - September 15 2024

Three Branches Institute for Educators

• Self-Paced

• August 27, 2024

SCHS Member Exclusive Event: Baseball, Dinner, and Discussion: Members Night at Nationals Park!

• 5:00 pm (EST)
• Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.

• July 16, 2024

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and His Vision for the Judiciary

• 12:00 pm (EST)

• May 28, 2024

The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms

• 12:00 pm (EST)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• May 21, 2024

The National Heritage Lecture

• 6:00 pm (EST)
• Supreme Court of the United States

• April 30, 2024

The Supreme Court Historical Society Virtual Law Day Event: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Supreme Court Justices He Knew

• 12:00 PM
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• April 11, 2024

DACOR: An Organization of Foreign Service Professionals | Co-sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society

• 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
• DACOR Bacon House | 1801 F Street, NW Washington DC

• April 4, 2024

The Legal Career of Future Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the 1970s

• 12:00 p.m. (EST)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• February 28, 2024

Educator Introduction to Our Civics Education Website

• 7:00 p.m. (EST)
• A Virtual Professional Development via Zoom

• February 21, 2024

The First Chief Justice: John Jay and the Making of a New Nation

• 12:00 p.m. (EST)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• January 30, 2024

Murder in the Shenandoah: A Conversation with Professor Jessica Lowe on Law in Post-Revolution Virginia and Future Chief Justice John Marshall

• 12:00 p.m. (EST)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• December 5, 2023

Repeal Day 2023 Virtual Happy Hour

• 5:00 p.m. (EST)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• November 17, 2023

The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made

• 12:00 p.m. (EST)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• October 31, 2023

Civics and American Democracy: Richard Haass

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• October 30, 2023

HOLMES — The World Premiere

• 7:00 p.m. (ET)
• Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

• September 14, 2023

Constitution Day 2023 Celebration — Clerking for Justice Hugo Black

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• July 17, 2023

How The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White Shaped My Career

• 1:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• June 21, 2023

The 2023 Juneteenth Commemoration

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• June 13, 2023

The Supreme Court Film Series: Loving (2016)

• 8:00 p.m. (ET)
• The Avalon Theatre

• May 31, 2023

The History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• May 9, 2023

The Supreme Court Film Series: On the Basis of Sex (2018)

• 8:00 p.m. (ET)
• The Avalon Theatre

• May 2, 2023

Law Day Lecture — James Wilson and “We The People”

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Presentation via Zoom

• April 27, 2023

The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• April 17, 2023

DC Emancipation Day Commemoration Lecture

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• April 11, 2023

The Supreme Court Film Series: Little Pink House (2017)

• 8:00 p.m. (ET)
• The Avalon Theatre

• March 14, 2023

The Supreme Court Film Series: Muhammed Ali’s Greatest Fight (2013)

• 8:00 p.m. (ET)
• The Avalon Theatre

• March 2, 2023

FDR’s Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism

• 7:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Presentation via Zoom

• February 22, 2023

Civics and American Democracy — Judicial Independence: A Look Back and A Look Forward

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Presentation via Zoom

• February 15, 2023

Frederick Douglass and African-American Claims to Constitutional Citizenship

• 7:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Presentation via Zoom

• January 25, 2023

Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas

• 7:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Presentation via Zoom

• January 11, 2023

Civics and American Democracy Lecture Series: The Historical Origins of An Independent Federal Judiciary

• 7:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Presentation via Zoom

• December 14, 2022

Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Presentation via Zoom

• December 1, 2022

‘A Pound of Flesh, but Not One Drop of Blood’: Frederick Douglass’s Antislavery Constitution

• This event has been postponed

• November 16, 2022

Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Presentation via Zoom

• November 16, 2022

Supreme Court Historical Society & The DACOR Bacon House Foundation: An Evening with David M. Rubenstein

• 6:30 p.m. (ET)
• The DACOR Bacon House

• October 17, 2022

Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court and the Making of the Liberal Establishment

• 7:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• September 21, 2022

Constitution Day 2022: A Special Screening of the Society’s Latest Documentary, “Marbury v. Madison”

• 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• A Virtual Presentation via Zoom

• July 26, 2022

The Jay Family of New York: Abolition, Slavery, and an Enslaved Woman Named Abigail

• 12:00 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Conversation via Zoom

• June 6, 2022

2022 Supreme Court Historical Society Annual Lecture

• 2 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• May 4, 2022

Law Day Lecture: Chief Justice William Howard Taft and the Judicial Conference, A Centennial Retrospective

• 12:00 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• April 12, 2022

Female Genius: George Washington and Eliza Harriot at the Dawn of the Constitution

• 3:00 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• March 23, 2022

Civics and American Democracy: A Conversation on the Importance of an Independent Federal Judiciary

• 12:00 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• March 8, 2022

Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival

• 12:00 p.m. EST
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• February 22, 2022

Civics Education and American Democracy: Independent Judicial Systems Under Stress

• 7:00 p.m. EST
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• January 31, 2022

John Stewart Rock: A Trailblazed Path to the Supreme Court Bar — A Lecture by Professor Christopher Brooks

• 12:00 p.m. EST
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• January 11, 2022

Civics and American Democracy: Reinvigorating Civics as a National Security Imperative

• 7:00 p.m. EST
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• December 8, 2021

Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish v. The West Coast Hotel Company — A Lecture by Helen Knowles

• 12:00 p.m. EST
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• November 17, 2021

The Case of the Dishonest Scrivener: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of the Federalist Constitution

• 6:00 p.m. EST
• Hart Auditorium • McDonough Hall • Georgetown University Law Center

• November 10, 2021

The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment with Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick

• 12:00 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• October 4, 2021

The Supreme Court, 1821: Looking Back on an Important Term

• 2:30 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Lecture via Zoom

• September 17, 2021

Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

• 12:00 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Presentation

• July 14, 2021

McCulloch Overruled? The Odyssey of a Landmark Case

• 12:00 p.m.
• A Virtual Presentation

• June 9, 2021

Bessie Margolin, The Supreme Court’s Fair Labor Lawyer

• 12:00 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Presentation

• May 11, 2021

Automotive Fourth Amendment

• 12:00 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Presentation

• April 29, 2021

The Relevance of Chief Justice John Marshall

• 4:00 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Presentation

• April 16, 2021

Baseball and the Supreme Court

• 12:00 p.m. ET
• A Virtual Presentation

• March 10, 2021

Lincoln, the Founders, and the Challenge of Self-Government

• 12:00 p.m. EST
• A Virtual Presentation

• March 3, 2021

The 25th Anniversary of the VMI Case: Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg and United States v. Virginia (1996)

• 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST
• A Virtual Presentation