Suggested Readings
Constitutional History and Law
Amar, Akhil Reed. America’s Constitution: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2005.
Allen, W.B., and Gordon Lloyd. The Essential Antifederalist. Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 1985.
Charles A. Beard. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. New York: Macmillan, 1913.
Bernstein, Richard B., and Jerome Agel. Amending America. New York: Random House, 1992.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention,
May to September 1787. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986.
Brown, Robert E. Charles A. Beard and the Constitution. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1956.
Collier, Christopher, and James Lincoln Collier. Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional
Convention of 1787. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986.
Ellis, Joseph. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Vintage Books, 2002.
Farrand, Max. The Framing of the Constitution of the United States. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1913.
Hall, Kermit L; William M. Wiecek; and Paul Finkelman. American Legal History: Cases and
Materials. Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hamilton, Alexander; James Madison and John Jay. The Federalist Papers (with Forward by Clinton
Rossiter). New York: New American Library, 1961.
Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. New York:
Random House, 1948.
Huntington, Samuel P. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman,
OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
Kammen, Michael. A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture. New
York: Knopf, 1986
Ketchman, Ralph., ed. The Anti-Federals Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debated. New
York: New American Library, 1986.
Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Learner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. (5 volumes) Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Maier, Pauline. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. New
York: Bantam, 2003.
Marshall, Thurgood. “Reflections on the Bi-Centennial of the United States Constitution.” Thurgood
Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions and Reminiscences. Edited by
Mark V. Tushnet, Lawrence Hill Books, 2001.
McDonald, Forrest. Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. Lawrence,
KS: University of Kansas Press, 1985.
McDonald, Forrest. We the People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
Patrick, John. The Bill of Rights: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford Press, 2005.
Peltason, J.W., and Sue Davis. Corwin & Peltason’s Understanding the Constitution. New York:
Harcourt, 2000.
Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New
York: Vintage Books, 1997.
Rossiter, Clinton. 1787: The Grand Convention. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
Storing, Herbert J. What the Anti-Federalists Were For. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1981.
Sunstein, Cass R. Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do. Oxford: Oxford Press, 2001.
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Tribe, Lawrence, and Michael C. Dorf. On Reading the Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1991.
Vile, John R. Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments and Amending Issues. Santa Barbara, CA:
ABC-CLIO, 1996.
Internet Resources
Annenberg Learning Center, http://www.learner.org/biographyof America.com
Avalon Project, Yale University, http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Center for Civic Education, http://www.civic.org
Federalist Papers, http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/federalist.com
Library of Congress, http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
University of Virginia, http://www.virginia.edu/pjm/home.html
“Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a
substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.”
—John Dewey (Democracy and Education, 1916)
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
—H.G. Wells (The Outline of History, 1920)
“The democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public
education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility
that too often is neglected.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (Land Review Policy, 1942)
Liberal Arts and Civic Leadership
Bok, Derek. Universities and the Future of America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990.
Carpini, Michael X. Delli, and Scott Keeter. What Americans Know About Politics and Why It
Matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Colby, Anne, et. al. Educating Citizens: Preparing America’s Undergraduates for Lives of Moral
and Civic Responsibility. San Francisco, CA: Carnegie Foundation/Jossey-Bass, 2003.
Dewey, John. Experience and Education. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1938.
Ehrlich, Thomas. Civic Responsibility and Higher Education. Westport, CT: American Council on
Education, Oryx Press, 2000.
Goodlad, John I. In Praise of Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.
Kouses, James M., and Barry Z. Posner. The Leadership Challenge: How to Get Extraordinary
Things Done in Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.
O’Connell, Brian. Civil Society: The Underpinnings of American Democracy. Lebanon, NH:
University Press of New England, 1999.
Schudson, Michael. The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life. Boston: Harvard
University Press, 1998.
Sinopoli, Richard C. The Foundations of American Citizenship: Liberalism, the Constitution, and
Civic Virtue. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Skocpol, Theda and Morris P. Fiorina, eds. Civic Engagement and American Democracy.
Brookings/Russell Sage, 1999.
Verba, Sidney; Kay Lehman Schlozman; and Henry E. Brady. Voice and Equality: Civic
Volunteerism in American Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
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