Focuses on the creation and ramifications of the American Constitution and political contributions

Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution

History

MORRIS, Richard B.

Americas

Henry Holt Co.

In this critical and provocative re-examination of the American Revolution, the author argues that the war not only heralded the end of parochial colonialism and the fulfillment of nationhood, but that it had a social and ideological dimension as well. This makes it a turning point in world history and a broader movement of national self-determination, constitutional re-creation, and social and intellectual liberation. What Americans took from their revolution was a tolerance of change that is still with us today.

American Revolution Reconsidered

Harper&Row

Looks at the history of the United States during the period between the end of the Revolution and the establishment of the federal government, and discusses the country's economic and social conditions

The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789 (New American Nation Series)

Teen & Young Adult

Harpercollins Childrens Books

The seventh edition of theEncyclopedia of American History updates this indispensable and classic reference book to cover the history of the United States from pre-Columbian times through the first year of the Clinton Administration. Unequaled in the amount of information contained within a single volume, and designed to be read as a narrative, the Encyclopedia chronicles all the essential facts of American history, from government and politics to science, thought and culture. 
 The Encyclopedia is divided onto four parts: 
 Part 1: "THE BASIC CHRONOLOGY" presents the main political and military events in the history of the United States, beginning with the era of discovery. It has been updated to reflect newly discovered facts and modern perspectives on domestic and foreign affairs. 
 Part 2: "THE TOPICAL CHRONOLOGY"records the nonpolitical aspects of American life and has been extensively revised to include a newly titled section "Land, Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment," as well as updated sections dealing with the American economy. A few of the topics covered in this section are the fine arts, religion, medicine, education, television and radio, immigration, population, United States expansion and Supreme Court decisions. 
 Part 3: "NOTABLE AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIES" contains profiles of 450 influential Americans from all walks of life and their outstanding achievements. 
 Part 4:"THE STRUCTURE OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT" includes tables of U.S Presidents and their cabinets, party strength in Congress from 1789, and Supreme Court justices, as well as the complete texts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. 
 Jeffrey B. Morris, is professor of law at the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center of Touro College. Associate editor for the last two revised editions of the Encyclopedia of American History, Morris is the author of over a dozen books, including Federal Justice in the Second Circuit and To Administer Justice on Behalf of All the People: The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1965-1990. He has been professor of political science at City College of the City University of New York and the University of Pennsylvania and visiting professor of law at the Brooklyn Law School. From 1976 to 1981 Morris served as the chief research associate to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger in Burger's role as head of the federal court system. 
 Richard B. Morris, (1904-1989) was Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University and past president of the American Historical Association. Morris wrote more than 40 books spanning legal, labor, diplomatic, political and social history, including The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence, The Forging of the Union 1781-1789, Witnesses at the Creation, Government and Labor in Early America and Studies in The History of American Law. He lectured throughout the world, serving as Fulbright Research Professor at the Sorbonne and Distinguished Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin.

Encyclopedia of American History: Seventh Edition

Collins Reference

Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? asked John Adams in 1815. Renowned scholars Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris have provided a prudent, perceptive answer—the participants themselves—and in the process have fashioned from the vast source material a thrilling chronological narrative. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six allows readers to experience events long-entombed in textbooks as they unfold for the first time for both Loyalists and Patriots: the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, and more. In letters, journals, diaries, official documents, and personal recollections, the timeless figures of the Revolution emerge in all their human splendor and folly to stand beside the nameless soldiers.Profusely illustrated and enhanced by cogent commentary, this book examines every aspect of the war, including the Loyalist and British views; treason and prison escapes; songs and ballads; the home front and diplomacy abroad. In short, the editors have wrought a balanced, sweeping, and compelling documentary history.

The Spirit Of Seventy-six: The Story Of The American Revolution As Told By Participants

COMMAGER, HENRY STEELE

Da Capo Press

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

BERKLEY

Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay and the Constitution

Plume

Witness At The Creation

Random House Value Publishing

Original artwork in black and white gives children the history of the American Constitution. Begins in 1780 with a letter from Alexander Hamilton to a New York Continental Congress member.

the first book of the constitution (588398)

Franklin Watts

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