For Adults
"It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people." James Madison
Free Online Information
Hillsdale College
- Introduction to the Constitution - a free course that examines the meaning and history of the US Constitution through the Founder's original documents.
- Constitution 201: The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism - A free course examining the importance of the principles of the American Founding.
- The Constitution Minute - one-minute messages designed to help improve your understanding of the meaning and history of the U.S. Constitution.
Books and eReaders
The 5000 Year Leap - Principles of Freedom 101 - W. Cleon Skousen
America - Imagine a World Without Her - Dinesh D'Souza
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
One Nation: What We Can Do to Save America's Future - Dr. Ben Carson
A Patriot's History of the United States - Larry Schweikart and Michael Patrick Allen
Original Texts and Books from Constitutional scholars:
The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison & the Founding of the Federal Republic - Lance Banning
James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government - Colleen Sheehan
Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 - Edited by Gordon Lloyd
50 Core American Documents - Ashbrook Ashland University
The American Revolution - Gordon Wood
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn
E Pluribus Unum - Forrest McDonald
The Essential Antifederalist - William B. Allen and Gordon Lloyd
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Colonies to Nation - Jack Greene
America - Imagine a World Without Her - Dinesh D'Souza
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
One Nation: What We Can Do to Save America's Future - Dr. Ben Carson
A Patriot's History of the United States - Larry Schweikart and Michael Patrick Allen
Original Texts and Books from Constitutional scholars:
The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison & the Founding of the Federal Republic - Lance Banning
James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government - Colleen Sheehan
Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 - Edited by Gordon Lloyd
50 Core American Documents - Ashbrook Ashland University
The American Revolution - Gordon Wood
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn
E Pluribus Unum - Forrest McDonald
The Essential Antifederalist - William B. Allen and Gordon Lloyd
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Colonies to Nation - Jack Greene
Videos
Republic vs. Democracy - After emerging from Independence Hall at the close of the Constitutional Convention a woman asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well Doctor, what have we got, a Republic or a Monarchy?" He replied, "A Republic, madam, if you can keep it". This video clip examines the different forms of Government.