{"id":282,"date":"2026-07-28T13:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/?p=282"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:41:30","slug":"constitution-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/2026\/07\/28\/constitution-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Inserted by Dropdownizer plugin. Forces video embeds contained in dropdowns to have a size --><style>.dropdownizer__dropdown iframe { width: 100% !important; height: 100% !important; }<\/style>\n<p>Did you know that September 17 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constitutionday.com\/\">Constitution Day<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this date in 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed by President George Washington and the Constitutional Delegates at Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2026, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/\">National Constitution Center<\/a>&nbsp;awarded the Liberty Medal to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on July 3, 2026.&nbsp;You can watch the historic event by following <span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">this<\/span> link:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/about\/liberty-medal\">https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/about\/liberty-medal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other ways to mark the occasion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tour&nbsp;an online exhibition of historic documents--including a draft of the Constitution--presented by the Vassar College Libraries at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/specialcollections.vassar.edu\/exhibit-highlights\/2006-2010\/my_dearest_friend\/\">My Dearest Friend: Letters of John and Abigail Adams From the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore&nbsp;the U.S. Constitution and its history at<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/\">https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read&nbsp;a transcript of the Constitution (replete with original spellings and punctuation) at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/constitution-transcript\">National Archives website<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Posted on\u00a0<time datetime=\"2020-09-17\">Tuesday, July 28, 202<\/time>6<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that September 17 is Constitution Day? On this date in 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed by President George Washington and the Constitutional Delegates at Philadelphia. In 2026, the&nbsp;National Constitution Center&nbsp;awarded the Liberty Medal to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on July 3, 2026.&nbsp;You can watch the historic event by following this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}