Building the State (1781-1797)


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Further Reading

Aptheker, Herbert. Early Years of the Republic. New York: International Publishers, 1976.

Fiske, John. The Critical Period of American History 1783 - 1789. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1888.

Mason, Alpheus T. The States Rights Debate. New York: Oxford UP, 1972.

McDonald, Forrest. We The People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.

Morris, Richard B. Basic Documents on the Confederation and Constitution. Malabar, FL: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1985.

Morris, Richard B. Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985.

Nevins, Allan. The American States During and After the Revolution. New York: The MacMillan Co., 1924.

Rossiter, Clinton, ed. The Federalist Papers. New York: NAL Penguin Inc., 1961.

Storing, Herbert, ed. The Anti-Federalist: Writings by the Opponents of the Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Ward, Harry M. The American Revolution: Nationhood Achieved 1763 - 1788. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

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