Resources selected to supplement HSTY 201 at TC3.

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

Books 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]
• Fate of a Nation: the American Revolution Through Contemporary Eyes [E208 .C87 1975b]
• Federalist Era, 1789-1801 [E310 .M5]
• Liberty’s Daughters: the Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 [HQ1418 .N67]
• 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]
• U.S. Constitution A to Z [REF KF4548 .M33 2002]
• 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]

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library Gateway page and search the TC3 Catalog. 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.

Library of Congress 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. To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library Gateway page and select "TC3 Catalog."

• Constitutional History, United States, Encyclopedias
• Shays’ Rebellion, 1786-1787
• United States, Articles of Confederation
• United States, Constitutional Convention (1787)
• United States, History, 1780-1797
• United States, History, Constitutional Period, 1789-1809
• Washington, George, 1732-1799
• Women in Politics, United States, History, Sources

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Other Media

You can request audio-visual materials from Media Services.

• George Washington [videorecording] : 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."
• Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 1708-1903 [microform]

History Journals in Electronic Format

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
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virgina Library has made the these resources available online. You can browse or search the collection, as well as download it as an MS Reader file.

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