Weber Reads the Founders - Bibliography

Books for School Libraries:
(given to all school libraries in Weber County, public and private)

Elementary

  • We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States by David Catrow
  • A More Perfect Union, the Story of Our Constitution, by Maestro and Maestro
  • Independent Dames, by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • The Revolutionary War, An Interactive History Adventure, by Elizabeth Raum

Middle School

  • American’s Black Founders, Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders, by Nancy Sanders
  • The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence, by Dennis Brindell Fradin
  • The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution, by Dennis Brindell Fradin
  • The United States Constitution, by Jonathan Hennessey
  • The Revolutionary War, An Interactive History Adventure, by Elizabeth Raum

High School

  • The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence, by Dennis Brindell Fradin
  • The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution, by Dennis Brindell Fradin
  • The United States Constitution (graphic version), by Jonathan Hennessey
  • Constitution Translated for Kids / La Constitución traducida para niños (Bilingual Edition), by Cathy Travis

Books for Children   (given away as part of Arts in Parks Reading Circles)

Additional Suggestions for Children

  • We the People, the Story of Our Constitution, by Lynn Cheney
  • George Washington, by the D'Aulaires
  • John, Paul, George & Ben, by Lane Smith
  • Letters for Freedom: The American Revolution (hands-on history book)
  • The American Revolution for Kids, by Janis Herbert

WSU Reading Groups

Founding America, Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, notes by Jack Rakove  (expanded Table of Contents)

Additional Suggestions for Book Groups

  • Judith Sargent Murray, a brief Biography with Documents, Sheila L. Skemp (others in series on Benjamin and William Franklin and Declaring Rights)
  • Ratification, The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, by Pauline Maier (also by Maier: American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence)
  • A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, by Carol Berkin
  • Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation, eds. Young, Raphael and Nash
  • The Founders: The People Who brought You a Revolution, by Ray Raphael
  • The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, by Gordon S. Wood
  • Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, by Woody Holton
  • Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America, by Linda Kerber
  • John Adams, by David McCullough
  • American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph Ellis

 

Essays on American Constitutional History (American Historical Association)

  • Race and the Constitution: From the Philadelphia Convention to the Age of Segregation
  • The War Power: Original and Contemporary
  • Women and the U.S. Constitution: 1776-1920s
  • The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century
  • Federalism Across the 19th Century, 1787-1905