Constitution & Early National Period (1783 - 1830)
Online Reference | Overviews | Magazines and Newspapers | Web Sites
Reference Books
American Eras - vols. 3-4 - R 973.8 A5123
America's Founding Charters: Primary Documents... - vol. 3 - R 342.73 A5123
Annals of America - vol. 3-5 (primary sources) - R 973 A613, 2003
Birth of the Bill of Rights: Encyclopedia of the Antifederalists - R 973.4 W 1498 b
The Early National Period - R 973.4 P9855 e
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution - R 342.73 E564 2000
Encyclopedia of the American West - R 978 E564
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century - R 973.5 E563
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation - R 973.03 E566
Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 - floor 2 - f 973.52 H4653 e
Historical Dictionary of the Early American Republic - R 973.4 B9285 h
Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812 - R 973.52 M2436 h
The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia - R 973.46 L8886
Online Reference
American National Biography (also in print) – Portraits of more than 17,000 American men and women.
History Database Center – Includes biographies, subject entries, primary sources, maps, and images.
Salem History – Includes the complete content of Milestone Documents, The Decades, Great Lives from History, and Great Events from History.
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Overviews
The American Quest, 1790-1860: An Emerging Nation - floor 2 - 973.4 R835 a
The American West: A New Interpretive History - floor 2 - 978 H6625 a
Are We To Be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution - floor 2M - f 342.73029 B5314 a
A Companion to 19th-Century America - floor 2 - 973 C7374, 2006
Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 - floor 2M - 342.73024 C6993 d
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans - floor 2 - 973 A6483 i
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention - floor 2M - 342.73 B786 m
The Nation Takes Shape, 1789-1837 - floor 2 - 973.4 C972 n
The New Nation, 1800-1845 - floor 2 - 973.5 W756 n
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution - floor 2M - 342.73029 B4145 p
1787: The Grand Convention - floor 2M - 342.73 R835 s
The Story of the West: A History of the American West and its People - floor 2 - 978.002 S887
The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution - floor 2M - 342.73029 S8494 s
Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson - floor 2 - 973.5 R4627 w
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 - floor 2 - 973.5 H8555 w
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Magazines and Newspapers
American Periodicals Series Online – More than 1500 American magazines and newspapers published between 1741 and 1940.
JSTOR – Full text of more than 950 scholarly journals.
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Web Sites (primary-source materials)
The Avalon Project: The American Constitution--A Documentary Record - Yale Law School - Documents on the roots of the Constitution, the Constitutional Convention, and the formation of the new government.
Documents from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention - Library of Congress - Documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution; includes extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase - Library of Congress- A collection of primary sources, including many maps, that focus on the region covered by the Louisiana Purchase.
The Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive - University of Virginia - Letters written by or to Thomas Jefferson, as well as a compilation of quotations from Jefferson's writings.
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