Begin Here
Start with the story
A chronology of the era, the convention that framed the Constitution, and the Americans who built the republic.
The Era
print — the early republicTimeline
A Chronology
The events of the era in order, from the weakness of the Confederation to the Era of Good Feelings.
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painting — the ConventionThe Founding
The Constitutional Convention
Madison’s journal of the 1787 convention that framed the Constitution, day by day.
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portrait — the foundersPeople
The Americans
Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams and the generation that built the new government.
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