Bring Us Back To School

This August, we're sharing resources designed to guide you through the 2023-24 school year.

The National Constitution Center’s framework for learning integrates three main components: historical foundations through storytelling; constitutional interpretation skills; and civil dialogue and reflection.

Follow along for teacher tested, nonpartisan classroom resources designed to engage students.

Historic Document Library

The National Constitution Center’s Founders’ Library includes primary texts that span American constitutional history—from the philosophical works that influenced the Founding generation to the most important speeches, essays, books, pamphlets, petitions, letters, court cases, landmark statutes, and state constitutions that have shaped the American constitutional tradition. To ensure nonpartisan rigor and ideological diversity, we assembled a group of leading scholars from diverse perspectives to help choose the sources included in the document library. The document library also includes sources curated by the National Constitution Center team.

Explore the Documents by Era

• Intellectual Foundations of the American Founding (Before 1750)
• Founding Era (1750-1790)
• Antebellum Era (1791-1860)
• Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
• Gilded Age through New Deal (1878-1945)
• Civil Rights Era—Coming Soon! (1946-Later)

Professional Learning Opportunities

The Center’s education team is available to answer questions about our classroom resources. To learn how to incorporate our resources in your classroom, email Sarah Harris, director of education, at [email protected].

Thank you for being part of our community of educators. If you have any questions we’d love to hear from you. Please email the education team at [email protected].

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