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ConSource has a New Home

Merger News

As of October 2020, ConSource has moved to a new home at Pembroke College, in the University of Oxford, and has become part of the Quill Project.

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From the Blog: A New Home for ConSource at Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

We are excited to announce that as of October 11, 2020, ConSource will merge with the Quill Project, a research center based at Pembroke College, Oxford. This merger is the culmination of many years of collaboration between the teams at ConSource and Quill. This transatlantic merger will build on ConSource’s 15 years as a leader in the field of US constitutional history and civic education to bring its digital archive, constitutional index, and portfolio of civic education resources to the next level. Dr. Nicholas Cole, a preeminent scholar of US legal history and constitutional thought at Pembroke College, Oxford ...

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