American History to 1877

Chapter 7:
Politics and Society in the New Republic, 1787-1820

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These resources have been selected by librarians to supplement HSTY 201 classes (American History to 1877) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

• Gale Virtual Reference Collection
• Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection
• Subject Headings
• Multimedia
• Locating Journal Articles in Databases
• Web Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

TC3 students and staff have access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library which has over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start your research because it provides useful background information.

Books and eBooks in Our Library

• Are We to be a Nation?: the Making of the Constitution [KF4520 .B47 1987]
• Articles of Confederation: an Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774-1781 [JK131 .J4]
• Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution [REF E208 .B635 1991]
• Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 by Theda Perdue. Online Resource, ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection
• Don’t Give Up the Ship!: Myths of the War of 1812 by Donald R. Hickey [E364.9 .H53 2006]
• Fate of a Nation: the American Revolution Through Contemporary Eyes [E208 .C87 1975b]
• Federalist Era, 1789-1801 [E310 .M5]
• John Adams by David McCullough [E322 .M38 2002]
• Liberty’s Daughters: the Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 by Mary Beth Norton [HQ1418 .N67]
• No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship by Linda K. Kerber [HQ1236.5.U6 K47 1998]
• People in Revolution: the American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 [E263.N6 C68]
• Shays’s Rebellion: the American Revolution’s Final Battle [F69 .R63 2002]
• A Spirited Resistance: the North American Indian Struggle for Snity, 1745-1815 by Gregory Evans Dowd. Online Resource, ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection
• U.S. Constitution A to Z [REF KF4548 .M33 2002]
• War of 1812 (2002) - Online Resource, Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Washington and His Colleagues; a Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of Federalism [E311 .F6]
• We the People: the Economic Origins of the Constitution [JK146 .M27]
• A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution by Rosemarie Zagarri. Online Resource, ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library search in the TC3 Library Catalog. You can also use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat to find books in other libraries which you can request through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on this topic in the TC3 Library Catalog as well as in the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• Constitutional History
• United States, Constitutional Convention (1787)
• United States, History, Constitutional Period, 1789-1809
• Washington, George, 1732-1799

Multimedia

• The Appalachians: The First Frontier (2005) - Streaming Video, Films on Demand (53 Minutes)
• George Washington: the man who wouldn’t be king [Media E312 .G4 1992] - "Explores our first President’s relationship with his troops and the revolutionary cause; with his slaves and his fellow founding fathers. It gives us an unconventional look at the man who insisted that America be a democracy."
• John Marshall: Citizen Statesman, Jurist (2005) - Streaming video, Films On Demand (57 minutes)
• Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 1708-1903 [microform]
• Leadership in the Early American Republic - Archived lectures given at Princeton University April 2-3, 2004: George Washington by Gordon Wood, John Adams by Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson by Barbara Oberg, James Madison by Lance Banning, Alexander Hamilton by Joanne Freeman, and Summation by Richard Brookhiser.

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & subject.

Web Resources

• Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Papers
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation - U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875, provided by theLibrary of Congress.
• George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years - "Twenty-five portraits made from life during Washington's years in office." (National Portrait Gallery.)
• George Washington Papers - Library of Congress collection "consists of approximately 65,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original Washington documents in the world. Document types in the collection as a whole include correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes accumulated by Washington from 1741 through 1799."
• John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library - "Browse and search 3,500 books from John Adams's personal library, view his marginal notes, and learn more about this President and his passion for books."
• The Papers of John Jay - Database of 13,000 documents (more than 30,000 page images). John Jay "was Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Articles of Confederation, a contributor to the Federalist, the first Chief Justice of the United States, negotiator of the 1794 "Jay Treaty" with Great Britain, and a two-term Governor of the State of New York. In his personal life, Jay embraced a wide range of social and cultural concerns."

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