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Revisiting the founding era : readings from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History / edited by Carol Berkin.

New York : Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2018.

United States. Constitution.

Documentation -- History.

United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources.

9781932821185 (paperback)

193282118X (paperback)

73 pages : illustrations, portraits, chiefly facsimiles ; 23 cm

Section I: Declaring independence. Introduction and discussion questions / Benjamin L. Carp --Documents: Receipt for land purchased from the Six Nations, July 28, 1769 -- The Blood Massacre Perpetrated in King-Street, Boston / Paul Revere, 1770 -- "On being brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley, 1773 -- From John Adams to Richard Henry Lee, November 15, 1775-- From Common Sense / Thomas Paine, 1776 -- Section II: Realizing Independence. Introduction and discussion questions / Denver Brunsman -- Documents. From Mercy Otis Warren to Catherine Macaulay, August 24, 1775 -- From George Washington to the President of the Convention of New Hampshire, January 23, 1777 -- From Lucy Flucker Knox to Henry Knox, August 23, 1777 -- Timothy Pickering to Timothy Pickering Sr., February 23, 1778 -- Peter Kiteredge, petition to the Selectmen of Medfield, Massachusetts, April 26, 1806--Section III. Creating the Constitution. Introduction and discussion questions / Carol Berkin -- Documents. From The Articles of Confederation, 1777 -- From George Washington, Circular letter to the states, addressed to William Livingston, June 12, 1783 -- From George Washington to Henry Knox, April 2, 1787 -- From Mercy Otis Warren To Catharine Macaulay, September 28, 1787 -- From Henry Knox to the Marquis de Lafayette, October 24, 1787 -- Section IV. Governing the New Nation. Introduction and discussion questions /Julie Silverbrook. Documents. Preamble to the first draft of the US Constitution, August 6, 1787, and Preamble to the final draft of the US Constitution, September 17, 1787 -- from Report ... [on] the Public Credit / by Alexander Hamilton, 1790 -- From George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, July 21, 1799 -- From Alexander Hamilton to Harrison Gray Otis, December 23, 1800 -- From Communications from Several States, on the Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia, Respecting the Alien & Sedition Laws, 1800.

"'Revisiting the Founding Era' calls on Americans today to re-examine documents and ideas from that turbulent period [from the first declaration of independence to the signing of the constitution] with an eye to their endurance over time and their relevance in the twenty-first century" -- Foreword.

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