Exhibitions
Ben Franklin: In His Own Words
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/franklin-home.html
Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara1.html
Madison's Treasures
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/madison/
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/
Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/us.capitol/s0.html
African American Odyssey: The Quest for Full Citizenship
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/
Lesson Plans
The Constitution: Drafting a More Perfect Union
http://myloc.gov/Education/ExhibitObjects/constitution.aspx
The Bill of Rights: Debating the Amendments
http://myloc.gov/Education/ExhibitObjects/rights.aspx
The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation
http://myloc.gov/Education/ExhibitObjects/declaration.aspx
Related Library Collections Online
James Madison Papers
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/index.html
George Washington Papers
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
Thomas Jefferson Papers
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/
Documents from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/
American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html
Rochambeau Map Collection
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rochambeau-maps/index.html
Letters of Delegates to Congress
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwdg.html
Other Online Resources
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
American Memory/Law
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/
Primary Documents in American History
Webguides-American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/constRedir.html
Constitution Day Resources
THOMAS
http://thomas.loc.gov/teachers/constitution.html
Library: U.S. Constitution Resources
Law Library page
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/federal/usconst.html
Webcasts
Robert Remini
The House: History of United States House of Representatives
Library webcast, May 9, 2006
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3892
Law Day 2006—Separate Branches, Balanced Powers: Madison’s Legacy
Various speakers sponsored by the Law Library and the American Bar Association
Library webcast, May 1, 2006
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4111
John Hope Franklin
Where Do We Go From Here?
Library webcast, March 6, 2007
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4030
Joseph Ellis
His Excellency: George Washington
National Book Festival webcast, September 24, 2005
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3795
David McCullough
1776
National Book Festival webcast, September 24, 2005
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3799
Ron Chernow
Alexander Hamilton
National Book Festival webcast, October 9, 2004
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3588
Joanne B. Freeman
Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and Alexander Hamilton, Writings
Books and Beyond Series, December 12, 2001
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3323
Annette Gordon-Reed and Joseph Ellis
Jefferson and His Legacy
Library webcast, July 25, 2000
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3320
Read More About It
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Boyd, Julian and Gerard W. Gawalt, eds. The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1999.
Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Ferling, John E. Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Franklin, John Hope and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. 8th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000.
Hutson, James H. Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1998.
Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: The Making of the Declaration of Independence. New York: Random House, 1997.
———. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776. New York: Norton, 1991.
McCullough, David. 1776: The Illustrated Edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800. New York: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Rakove, Jack. Original Meaning: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Roberts, Cokie. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation. New York: William Morrow, 2004.
Rutland, Robert. Birth of the Bill of Rights. Bicentennial edition. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991.
Smith, Paul H. and Gerard W. Gawalt, et al., eds. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789. 26 vols. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1976–2000.
Stewart, David O. The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007.
Wilkins, Roger. Jefferson's Pillow: A Black Patriot Confronts the Myths of the Founding Fathers. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001
Wills, Garry. Explaining America: The Federalist. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
Wood, Gordon. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
FOR YOUNGER READERS
Catrow, David. We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the U. S. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.
Donlan, Leni. Benjamin Franklin: A Life Well Lived. Chicago: Raintree, 2007.
———. George Washington: Revolution and the New Nation. Chicago: Raintree, 2006.
Fink, Sam. The Constitution of the United States of America. New York: Random House, 1987.
Harness, Cheryl. The Revolutionary John Adams. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2003.
Quiri, Patricia Ryon. The Bill of Rights. New York: Children’s Press, 1998.
———. The Declaration of Independence. New York: Children’s Press, 1998.