Primary Source Learning: U.S. Constitution

Constitution Annotated analysis & interpretation of the U.S. Constitution

Primary source lesson plans & activities

• American Memory Timeline: Primary Source Excerpts and Discussion Questions Related to the Constitution
• The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation?
• The Constitution: Drafting a More Perfect Union
• Encouraging Student Understanding of Negotiation and the Value of Notetaking during the 1787 Constitutional Convention Teaching with the Library of Congress
• The Meaning of the Federalist Papers Citizen U
• The U.S. Constitution: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States
• Preamble to the Constitution Image Sequencing
• What was the purpose of the Preamble?
• Collection Connections
  • Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
  • U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
• Historical Scene Investigation: I Smelt a Rat
• The Bill of Rights: Debating the Amendments
• Race and the 14th Amendment Citizen U
• Guided primary source analysis activities
  • The Constitutional Amendment
  • National Anti-Suffrage Association

Primary sources & more

• Today in History: U.S. Constitution