Revolution, Constitution,

and the People

1776–1815

Gordon Wood on George Washington

Gordon Wood on the American Revolution

Gordon Wood on Washington's Most Important Act

Andrew Robertson on Establishing an American Identify

Andrew Robertson on the American Revolution

Andrew Robertson on the Two American Revolutions

The Course of the War  

Waging War, North and South: The Battles

Waging War, North and South: Patriots vs. Loyalists

Fighting Forces: State Militias

Fighting Forces: The Continental Army

The Fighting Forces: Wartime Conditions

James Horton“Slavery and the American Revolution”

The War and Slavery

The War and Slavery: Former Slaves Fought for Americans and British

Native Americans and War on the Frontier

Building a Republic

Movement for a People’s Government: Tom Paine

The Movement for a People’s Government: State Constitutions

 

The Limits to Democratization

The Articles of Confederation (1777)

Regulated Prices or Free Markets?

 

Shays' Rebellion (1786)

 

The Limits and Possibilities of the Revolution: Slavery

The Limits and Possibilities of the Revolution: Women's Rights

Creating a National Government

The Constitution’s Framers

Bernard Bailyn and Jack Rakove “The Framers of the Constitution”

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Jack Rakove on Interpreting the Constitution

Jack Rakove on Madison and the Constitution

Jack Rakove on the Ratification of the Constitution

Framers of the Constitution

Larry Kramer on Federalism

Larry Kramer on the Constitution

The Constitution’s Compromise on Power of States and Central Government

The Constitution’s Compromise on Slavery

Jack Rakove“The Three-Fifths Compromise”

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A SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM? Thomas Jefferson and Slavery

The Fight for Ratification

Bernard Bailyn and Jack Rakove “Anti-Federalist Arguments Against the

Constitution”

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Carol Berkin on the Constitutional Convention

Carol Berkin on the Federalists and Antifederalists

Carol Berkin on Women in the American Revolution

Securing a Bill of Rights

American Society: Competing Visions

James Horton on Slavery and the Constitution

Post-Revolutionary America in the World

What Would the Founding Fathers Do?