Suggested Web Sites
for Constitution Day and Citizenship Day

These sites are excellent resources for teaching about the consitution, a required topic on September 17 in all schools that receive federal funds.

Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html

The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/constitution.html

The Avalon Project: Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/constpap.htm

The James Madison Center: James Madison University
http://www.jmu.edu/madison/center/home.htm

National Constitution Center
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/

The Emory School of Law: On-line copy of the Federalist Papers
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/federalist/federser.html

The Smithsonian Institute: The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html

PBS: Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/narrative.html

The American Colonist’s Library
http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/

The Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/

Center for Civic Education
http://www.civiced.org/lesson-plans.html

The Bill of Rights Institute
http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/article.php?sid=270

The Freedom Forum
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13588

Digital History: Interpreting Primary Sources
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/handouts.cfm

CongressLink
http://www.congresslink.org/print_lp_contents.htm

The Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module2/index.html

The New York Historical Society: Alexander Hamilton
http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org/