Supplemental Materials

A More Perfect Union: American Independence and the Constitution

A More Perfect Union: American Independence and the Constitution examines the political, social, and economic context in which the U.S. Constitution was framed. Students explore parallels between the controversies of America's formative years and our country's present-day civic discourse.

Web Links

The Library of Congress
Primary Sources on the Declaration of Independence

The Library of Congress
Primary Sources on the Constitution

Constitution Day
A web site of The Constitution Center

Books

Booth, Sally Smith. The Women of ‘76 (New York: Hastings House, 1973). 329 pages.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986). 346 pages.

Draper, Theodore. A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution (New York: Random House, 1996). 518 pages.

Dupuy, R. Ernest. The American Revolution: A Global War (New York: David McKay Company, 1977). 392 pages.

Farrand, Max. ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (New York: Yale University Press, 1966). 1,900 pages.

Hibbert, Christopher. Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1990). 338 pages.

Irwin, Ray W. The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with the Barbary Powers, 1776-1816 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1931). 204 pages.

Jensen, Merrill. The New Nation: A History of the United States during the Confederation, 1781-1789 (New York: Knopf, 1962). 432 pages.

Jensen, Merrill. The Articles of Confederation (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959). 284 pages.

Jones, Michael Wynn. The Cartoon History of the American Revolution (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975). 186 pages.

Kammen, Michael, ed. The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History (New York: Penguin Books, 1986). 407 pages.

Mitchell, Broadus. A Biography of the Constitution of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964). 384 pages.

Morrison, Samuel Eliot, ed. Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965). 362 pages.

Peters, William. A More Perfect Union (New York: Crown Publishers, 1987). 294 pages.

Purvis, Thomas L. Revolutionary America, 1763 to 1800 (New York: Facts on File, 1995). 382 pages.

Veit, Helen E. ed. Creating the Bill of Rights (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991). 320 pages.

Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1969). 615 pages.

Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: Random House, 1993). 369 pages.

NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, A More Perfect Union: American Independence and the Constitution. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.