Chapter 41

THE CRISIS

Very little collateral reading should be allowed in reading this chapter on framing the Constitution. Sundry topics may be sparingly selected for reading from the index to Fiske's _Critical Period of American History_. Fiske's _Civil Government in the United States_ may be utilized for reference.

Read Brooks's _Century Book for Young Americans_; Chapter II in Elson's _Side Lights on American History_ (First Series, p. 24), on "The Framing of the Constitution"; and Chapter XII, p. 283, in Higginson's _Larger History of the United States_, on "The Birth of a Nation."

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NOTE.--For the War of the Revolution no more interesting books can be read by pupils than Brooks's _Century Book of the Revolution_ and Coffin's _Boys of '76_. Lossing's _Field Book of the Revolution_, in two large volumes, is interesting, and contains hundreds of illustrations.