Mark Peterson, the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University, will speak on his most recent book, The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History, at Boston College on September 16 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. Peterson’s narrative paints an arresting picture of a dynamic republic whose frame of government has changed enormously to meet the challenges of the modern age but whose written constitution has changed very little. The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution reveals how this widening disconnect threatens the very existence of American democracy. Peterson issues a call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imagined. Peterson is also the author of The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865 and The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England. His lecture is presented by the Lowell Humanities Series and cosponsored by the History Department. The event is fee and open to the public, but advance registration is required.