ESU History Professor Contributes to National Constitution Center’s Founders’ Library

East Stroudsburg University is pleased to announce that Christopher Brooks, Dr. phil., professor of history has recently completed work with the National Constitution Center.

Dr. Brooks selected documents, provided commentary and edited essential primary documents for the National Constitution Center’s Founders’ Library. Brooks worked alongside Dr. Kenneth Mack, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, to select documents included in the Library’s Civil Rights Era. The historic documents in this set cover the Truman Administration to the Civil Rights Era through the end of the twentieth century.

“Document selection involved consideration of well and lesser-known documents that had broad impact. It was equally important to select documents that represented as many different constituencies of our nation’s rich history and culture as possible,” Brooks said.

According to the website, “The National Constitution Center’s Founders’ Library includes primary texts that span American 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 primary texts included in the Founders’ Library. We’ve also included sources curated by the National Constitution Center team.”

To learn more about the Founders’ Library visit constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library.

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