Session 1 – American Revolution

• Session 1 Study Guide & Questions
• Learning for Adults
• Learning for Children
• Wood - Power and Liberty
• Declaration of Independence – Excerpt
• Abigail Adams to John Adams – March 1776
• John Adams to Abigail Adams – April 1776
• George Washington Circular Letter – 1783
  

 

Session 2 – Federal Constitution-Making

• Session 2 Study Guide & Questions
• Learning for Adults
• Learning for Children
• Articles of Confederation
• Benjamin Franklin Convention Speech
• Federalist 10 – Excerpt
• Federalist 51 – Excerpt
• Federalist 1 – Excerpt (Brutus)
• Peacemaker's Journey and Great Law of Peace
• Slave Importation Clause - 1787 Constitutional Convention Debates
• Senate Resolution 331 (1988) - Iroquois Confederacy of Nations and the Constitution
  

Session 3 – The Founding & Civil War

• Session 3 Study Guide & Questions
• Learning for Adults
• Learning for Children
• Calhoun's Error of 'All Men Are Created Equal'
• Douglass - What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?
• Stephens - Corner Stone Speech – Excerpt
• Lincoln - Gettysburg Address

 

Session 4 – Keeping the Republic

• Session 4 Study Guide & Questions
• Learning for Adults
• Learning for Children
• Excerpts on Civic Virtue
• Tocqueville to Corcelle Letter, 1853
• Tocqueville's Hearts and Minds of Men
• Summary of Putnam's Bowling Alone
• Excerpt of Brooks' Love Your Enemies