Building A New Nation Resource Set

Painting entitled “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States” by Howard Chandler Christy.  Painted in April, 1940 

Key to figures in the painting  entitled “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States (Black & white drawing) 

A key identifying the subjects of Howard Chandler Christy's 1940 painting, a well-known work which hangs in the United States Capitol building.

Articles of Confederation, Nov. 15, 1777 - page 1 (Image)

The Articles of Confederation, ratified in 1781. This was the format for the United States government until the Constitution.

Leaders of the Continental Congress (Drawing/Print)

Leaders of the Continental Congress–John Adams, Morris, Hamilton, Jefferson / Augustus Tholey, artist, 1894.