Additional Resources
Check out these additional resources to further explore the historical topic and teaching strategy for this session.
Content Resources
A Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog05/index.html
On this site, you can view the Biography of America video (or read the transcript) for Program 5: A New System of Government, featuring historian Donald L. Miller. You can also access maps, listings of key events, and Web links on this topic.
Primary Sources: Workshops in American History
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/ revolution/ introduction.html
On this site, you can view the Primary Sources video (or read the transcript) for Program 2: Common Sense and the American Revolution. You can also access lectures, activities, classroom applications, and additional print and Web resources.
American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
This site contains a digital collection of sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Modules on Major Topics in American History: The Constitution
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module2/index.html
On this site, you can access a brief overview of the Constitution, primary source documents, learning tools, visual aids, and additional resources.
Best of History Web Sites: Constitution
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_Constitution.shtml
This site provides an extensive annotated list of online resources related to the U.S. Constitution, including ones with archival documents, lesson plans, and interactive activities.
The Avalon Project: The American Constitution -- A Documentary Record
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/constpap.htm
This site provides a collection of key historical documents that preceded and followed the U.S. Constitution.
National Constitution Center
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/ncc_home_Landing.aspx
This comprehensive site contains the full text of the U.S. Constitution, interactive tools, a Constitutional timeline, essays looking at the Constitution from different perspectives, and more.
Our Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
On this site, you will find a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
The National Archives Experience: Charters of Freedom
http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/ charters/ charters.html
This site focuses on the making of the charters and their impact, and includes short biographies of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention and images and transcripts of the documents.
Document Library
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/
This site provides a list of letters, speeches, documents, Web sites, books, and articles on significant people and events in American political thought and history.
Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
On this site, you will find a listing of over 5,000 Web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.
Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Fruchtman, Jack, Jr. Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994.
Keane, John. Tom Paine: A Political Life. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.
Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Vintage Books, 1998. Also published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf, distributed by Random House, Inc., 1997.
Rakove, Jack N. (ed). Interpreting the Constitution: The Debate over Original Intent. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990.
Reid, John Phillip. Constitutional History of the American Revolution. Abridged ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill, NC: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Strategy Resources
Modules on Major Topics in American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/modules.html
On this site, you will find a link to primary source documents for 24 topics in American history, beginning with the Revolutionary War and ending with September 11th.
Historical Documents
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/resources1.html
This page provides an annotated list of links to large collections of historical documents online.
Teacher Resources: Lesson Framework
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/fw.html
This site provides a framework for incorporating primary sources into your teaching and discusses how to select sources to use.
The National Archives: Digital Classroom
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html
This site provides a collection of resources for teaching with primary sources.
History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
This rich site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers teaching materials, primary source documents, and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history.
Document-Based Questions
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html
On this site, you will find a collection of primary source documents and resources to help students develop the skills needed to effectively respond to document-based questions.
Black History Resources: African American Historical Documents Online
http://www.learnquebec.ca/en/content/curriculum/social_sciences/ features/ bhr/ hbhmdocs.html
This site provides links to archival collections of historical documents related to African American history, along with helpful links for teachers using primary source documents in the classroom.