United by Links

A number of links and web resources were discussed during the NEH Landmarks Institute at Montpelier. I’m going to post a few that I caught and ask that everyone add to the list by posting a comment to share your best kept secrets on the web.

Sue Leeson shared this resource created by Gordon Lloyd. This is a day-by-day summary of the Constitutional Convention…

http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/summary.html

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School provides an incredible resource for primary documents. Look for the entire collection Federalist Papers under 18th Century documents…

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

ConSource provides an impressive collection too. Look for Madison’s Notes, state ratification debates, and what they present as “Anti-Federalist and Pro-Federalist Papers”…

http://www.consource.org/index.asp?bid=530

Will shared this link to his speaking notes for a presentation at Princeton’s Conference on “Constitutionalism” last February. His presentation is titled “Constitution of Failure: The Architectonics of a Well-Founded Constitutional Order“…

http://www.princeton.edu/~uchv/constitutionalism/Harris.pdf

For his concluding remarks the second week, Will shared an assignment he often presented to his students at Penn. Read Douglas R. Hofstadter’s 12th chapter of Metamagical Themas, titled “Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity.” You can take a look at the table of contents and other excerpts using Google’s Book Search…

http://tinyurl.com/6gr5ue

And, here’s the National Constitution Center’s Interactive Constitution. Based on Linda R. Monk’s The Words We Live By, you can explore by topic, search by keyword, or searcy by Supreme Court Decisions…

http://www.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/

It’s a start… leave a reply and share your favorites too!

–Shellee