Books.

The Constitution. Douglas Adair, Fame and the Founding Fathers (1974). Akhil Reed Amar, The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction. (1998). Lance Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (1995). Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913). Robert E. Brown, Charles Beard and the Constitution (1956). Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier, Decision: Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 (1986). J.E. Cooke, ed., The Federalist (1961). Thomas Curry, The First Freedom: Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment (1986). Linda G. DePauw, The Eleventh Pillar: New York State and the Federal Constitution (1966). Max Farrand, ed., Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 4 vols. (1911-1937). Max Farrand, The Framing of the Constitution of the United States (1913). Francis G. Hutchins, Tribes and the American Constitution (2000). Michael Kammen, A Machine that Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture (1986). Rogan Kersh, Dreams of a More Perfect Union (2001). Leonard Levy, Constitutional Opinions: Aspects of the Bill of Rights (1986); and Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution (1988). Michael Lienesch, New Order of the Ages: Time, the Constitution, and the Making of Modern American Political Thought (1988). Donald S. Lutz, Origins of American Constitutionalism (1988). Joseph M. Lynch, Negotiating the Constitution: The Earliest Debates over Original Intent (1999). Jackson Turner Main, The Anti-Federalists (1961). Alpheus T. Mason, The State Rights Debate (1964). Forrest McDonald, We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution (1958); E. Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790 (1965); and Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (1985). William L. Miller, The First Liberty: Religion and the American Republic (1986). Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988). Richard B. Morris, The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789 (1987). Jack Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996). Clinton Rossiter, 1787: The Grand Convention (1965). Robert A. Rutland, The Ordeal of the Constitution (1966). Gerald Stourzh, Alexander Hamilton and the Idea of Republican Government (1970). Garry Wills, Explaining America (1981). John R. Wunder, "Retained by the People": A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights (1994). Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic (1969).

The Federalist Era. Leland D. Baldwin, The Whiskey Rebels (1939). Richard Beeman, The Old Dominion and the New Nation, 1788-1801 (1972). Irving Brant, The Bill of Rights (1965). Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington (1996); Alexander Hamilton (1999); America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1919 (2002). Ralph Adams Brown, The Presidency of John Adams (1975). Jerald A. Combs, The Jay Treaty (1970). Manning Dauer, The Adams Federalists (1953). Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism (1993). John F. Hoadley, Origins of American Political Parties, 1789-1803 (1986). John R. Howe, The Changing Political Thought of John Adams (1966). Ralph Ketchum, Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 (1984). Richard Kohn, Eagle and Sword: The Federalists and the Creation of the Military Establishment in America, 1783-1802 (1975). Stephen G. Kurtz, The Presidency of John Adams (1957). Daniel G. Lang, Foreign Policy in the Early Republic (1985). Leonard Levy, Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American History, rev. ed. (1985). David McCullough, John Adams (2001). Forrest McDonald, The Presidency of George Washington (1974). John C. Miller, Crisis in Freedom (1951); The Federalist Era, 1789-1801 (1960). Carl E. Prince, The Federalists and the Origins of the U.S. Civil Service (1978). Thomas P. Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution (1986). James M. Smith, Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties (1956). Wiley Sword, President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790-1795 (1985). Mary K.B. Tachau, Federal Courts in the Early Republic: Kentucky, 1789-1816 (1978). Larry E. Tise, The American Counterrevolution: A Retreat from Liberty, 1783-1800 (1998). Leonard D. White, The Federalists (1948). Ann Fairfax Withington, Toward A More Perfect Union: Virtue and the Formation of American Republics (1991).

The Jeffersonian Republicans. Joyce Appleby, Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s (1984). Lance Banning, The Jeffersonian Persuasion (1978). Charles A. Beard, The Economic Origins of the Jeffersonian Opposition (1915). Richard W. Buel, Jr., Securing the Revolution: Ideology in American Politics, 1789-1815 (1972). William N. Chambers, Political Parties in a New Nation (1963). Joseph Charles, The Origins of the American Party System (1956). Noble Cunningham, The Jeffersonian Republicans (1957). Joseph Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1998); Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. (2001). Richard Hofstadter, The Idea of a Party System (1970). Drew McCoy, The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (1980); and The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy (1989). Thomas L. Pangle, The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Followers of Locke (1988). Merrill D. Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation (1970). Norman K. Risjord, Chesapeake Politics, 1781-1800 (1978). Patricia Watlington, The Partisan Spirit (1972). Alfred F. Young, The Democratic-Republicans of New York (1967). John Zvesper, Political Philosophy and Rhetoric: A Study of the Origins of American Party Politics (1977).

Federalist Diplomacy. Harry Ammon, The Genet Mission (1973). Samuel F. Bemis, Jay's Treaty (1923); and Pinckney's Treaty (1926, rev. 1960). Alexander DeConde, Entangling Alliance (1958); and The Quasi-War (1966). Felix Gilbert, To the Farewell Address (1961). Lawrence S. Kaplan, Jefferson and France (1967). Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, vol 1: The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865 (1993); The First Rapproachment: England and the United States (1967). Charles Ritcheson, Aftermath of Revolution: British Policy Toward the United States, 1783-1795 (1969). Louis M. Sears, George Washington and the French Revolution (1960). Paul A. Varg, Foreign Policies of the Founding Fathers (1963).

The Founders. Joyce Appleby, Thomas Jefferson 1801-1805, 1805-1809 (2003). Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders (2003). Irving Brant, James Madison (1950). Richard Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton (1999); America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1919 (2002). Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (1999). Joseph Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1998); Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. (2001). John Ferling, Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson and the American Revolution. (2000). James T. Flexner, George Washington, 4 vols. (1965-1972). Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington, 7 vols. (1948-1957). Scott Douglas Gerber, ed., Seriatim: The Supreme Court before John Marshall (1998). Mark E. Kann, A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (1998). Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr, 2 vols. (1979, 1982). Stuart Leibiger, Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic (1999). Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, ed., Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. (1999). Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, 6 vols. (1948-1981). John C. Miller, Alexander Hamilton (1959). Edmund Morgan, Benjamin Franklin (2002). Richard B. Morris, Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution (1985). David McCullough, John Adams (2001). Merrill Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation (1970). James H. Read, Power versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson (2000). Arnold A. Rogow, A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1998). Gary Rosen, American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding (1999). Barry Schwartz, George Washington: The Making of a Symbol (1987). Page Smith, John Adams (1962). William Stinchecombe, The XYZ Affair (1980). C. Bradley Thompson, John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty (1998). Larry E. Tise, ed., Benjamin Franklin and Women (2000). Karl-Friedrich Walling, Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government. (1999). Garry Wills, Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment (1984); James Madison (2002). Esmond Wright, Franklin of Philadelphia (1986).

Films.

The American Story, No. 3: Creating a Republic; No. 4: Experiment in Government; No. 5: The Federalist Era (1985). The Background of the United States Constitution (1982). The Constitution: An American Adventure. The Constitution of the United States (1982). George Washington - The Man Who Wouldn't Be King (1992). George Washington & the Whiskey Rebellion (1975).

Internet Resources.

The Papers of George Washington - http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: 18th Century documents - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htm