The Constitution (1781–1815)

Suggestions for Further Reading

Amar, Akhil Reed. The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Boydston, Jeanne, Nick Cullather, Jan Ellen Lewis, Michael McGerr, and James Oakes. Making a Nation: The United States and its People. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Cunningham, Noble E. Jefferson vs. Hamilton: Confrontations that Shaped a Nation. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2000.

Faragher, John Mack, Mari Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People, Volume I. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003.

Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist Papers. New York: Signet Classics, 2003.

Hickey, Donald. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American Pageant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Weisberger, Bernard A. America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800 . New York: William Morrow, 2000.