Reference Books
Dictionary of American History
-online via the Gale
Virtual Reference Library database
suggested entries in this online reference:
The
Call for Amendments (1787-1788)
The
First Amendment
Bill
of Rights in U.S. Constitution
Encyclopedia
of the American Constitution
Mortola Reference KF4548 .E53 2000 (6 volumes)
-Look for entries on specific amendments and rights in these books.
The entries are written with a legal perspective.
-Use the bibliographies from entries in reference books to find
the titles of books and articles that will provide you with more
information.
- To check for periodical holdings in the library, click on Print
and E-Journals on the library homepage and then type in the
title of the periodical.
The Founders' Constitution
Mortola Reference KF4502 .F68 1987
-online at: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
This book provides a context to the creation of the U.S. Constitution
by providing related primary
source materials.
Justice Learning Guide to the Bill of Rights
http://www.justicelearning.org/justice_timeline/Amendments.aspx?
This web page tells you what the amendment says, what it means,
and gives a timeline of significant events in the history and
interpretation of the amendment.
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Articles
via Databases
A wide variety of resources are available by clicking on this
link. Databases are listed alphabetically and by subject.
Recommended databases:
Research
Library
This database contains recent articles from the New York Times,
Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and several
other major newspapers. It also contains articles from recent
magazines and scholarly journals.
America:
History and Life
This database is an index of articles published in magazines and
journals about American History and culture.
JSTOR
accessible on the Pace Campus via http://www.jstor.org/
-this database contains all
peer-reviewed articles.
Academic Search Premier
This database is similar in content to the Research Library database
without all of the major newspaper, but including more scholarly
peer-reviewed journals.
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Books
via the Catalog
Try a keyword
search for a freedom or an amendment. You might also want
to click on the links below to launch a subject search in the
catalog. Remember to use the bibliographies from entries in Reference
books to locate the titles of recommended books on a subject.
-suggested subject searches:
United
States Constitution Amendments 1st-10th
United
States Constitution 1st Amendment
Church
and state -- United States -- History
Freedom
of religion -- United States -- History
Freedom
of speech -- United States -- History
Freedom
of the press -- United States -- History
United
States. Constitution. 2nd Amendment
Firearms
-- Law and legislation -- United States
Self-incrimination
-- United States -- History
Right
to counsel -- United States
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Web Sites:
-The
Bill of Rights from the National Archives
The site contains the transcript of the U.S. Constitution with
brief essays that provide a historical background.
-Rights
of the People: Individual Freedom and the Bill of Rights
This site is sponsored by the U.S. State Department. It provides
historical background to the individual freedoms guaranteed in
the Bill of Rights.
-The U.S.
Constitution on Findlaw
This version of the U.S. Constitution contains annotations with
references to the texts of relevant legal decisions.
-The Supreme Court
Historical Society
-Common-place:
special issue on the Constitution (Vol. 2, no. 4 2002)
This is a special issue of Common-place, an online history
journal, that is devoted to the U.S. Constitution.
-The
Constitution of the United States of America : analysis and interpretation
: annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United
States from the Government Printing Office
-History
Internet Resources from the Pace University Library
This is a list of History-related Internet resources, organized
by categories.
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Information on citing and evaluating sources:
How to prepare an annotated bibliography
http://www.pace.edu/library/pages/instruct/distance/annotated.html
-Things you may want to consider when creating annotations are
the expertise of the author(s), why the information will be helpful
to your research, and how you retrieved the item.
Online Bedford Manual / http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc
Citing
Resources from the Pace University Library
Knight Cite - Citation Generator / http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/
from the Calvin College Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Created by the Pace University Library
Last updated: 2/16/2006 (
BJ)
Instructional Services Team
instruct@pace.edu