Additional Material on the Founding Fathers

Several people have asked about more material on the Framers.  There are numerous books available and many individual biographies of the more popular members of the Constitutional Convention.  Below are a few interesting references that provide more details than appear in this blog but are much more concise than the books.


William Pierce, one of the Framers, wrote a short biographical sketch of the others.  His sketchs, together with other interesting materials, are available at:

http://www.usconstitution.net/constframe.html

A different and interesting perspective of some of these men as citizen soldiers is provided by the U. S. Army Center for Military History at:

http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/ss/ss-fm.htm

A geographically oriented description of these individuals, excerpted from Carol Berkin's book, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, is available at:

http://constitutioncenter.org/ncc_edu_Founders.aspx