Resource Guides: Constitution Day: Books

Books available from GT or Emory

Ratification: the people debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
at Library Service Center - KF4541 .M278 2010
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The ideological origins of American federalism
Emory Shared Collection - Sign in to request it be sent to GT Library for checkout
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
Emory Shared Collection - sign in to request it to be sent to GT Library for checkout
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[note: Emory has 2 copies - the Woodruff Library copy is the one available]
Edward S. Corwin's Constitution and What It Means Today
Ebook - sign in for access
14th ed., 1978 (2008 reprint)
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1978 hard-copy is also available - offsite at the Library Service Center, KF 4550.C64 1978 - sign in to request it to be sent to the GT Library for checkout
The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History: From the Notes of James Madison
Emory Shared Collection - Sign in to to request it be sent to GT Library for checkout
Plain Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
at Library Service Center - KF4510.B44 2009
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The Establishment of Religion Clause: the First Amendment: its Constitutional History and Contemporary Debate
Emory Shared Collection - Sign in to request it be sent to GT Library for checkout
To Form a More Perfect Union: a new economic interpretation of the United States
Ebook - sign in for access.
From Oxford Univ. Pr., 2003

"The Federalist Papers" -- also known as "The Federalist". The Library has several print and ebook versions; and, there is a free online version from Congress (see box to the right). Below are 2 recent editions.

The Federalist Papers
Yale Univ. Pr. reprint 2009 (602 pages)
Ebook - sign in for access
The Federalist Papers
Oxford Univ. Pr. reprint 2008 (953 pages)
Ebook - sign in for access

Free ebooks

The Constitution of the United States of America
2816 pages! Includes Analysis and Interpretation
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pdf is directly at: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2012/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2012.pdf
The Federalist Papers
"paper-by-paper"; on Congress website from Project Gutenberg
History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States
By George Ticknor Curtis. Vol. II, 1858 - published by Harper & Brothers.
From the Library of Congress.
Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States of America. vol. 2
Issued by the Dept. of State, 1894
Digitized by Internet Archive; link is to HathiTrust [GT users can download entire book; others can view entire book, yet print/download page-by-page]

Books on Women's Suffrage

Below are e-books available online to the GT community via the Georgia Tech Library .

Suffrage: Women's long battle for the vote
By Ellen DuBois, published in 2020
Woman Suffrage and Womens Rights
By Ellen DuBois, published in 1998.
Women's suffrage the complete guide to the nineteenth amendment
By Tiffany Wayne, published in 2020.
Why they marched untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote
By Susan Ware, published in 2019.
Exploring women's suffrage through 50 historic treasures
By Jessica Jenkins, published in 2020.
Picturing political power images in the women's suffrage movement
By Allison Lange, published in 2020.
Century of struggle : the woman's rights movement in the United States
Classic book by Eleanor Flexner. 2d ed., 1975. At LSC - CORE Collection - HQ1410 .F6 1975
History of Woman Suffrage
6 volumes, publ. from 1881-1922. Several were ed. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Via HeinOnline database