Chesterfield County Public Library

DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM RESOURCE LIST

Books and Video Material

Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville (various editions and audio cassette)
Call Number 320.9735 T

Founding Fathers produced by A&E Television (video)
Call Number VID 973.3092

Lincoln On Democracy by Mario M. Cuomo and Harold Holzer eds.
Call Number 973.L736

On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
Call Number 321.8 D

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (also in audio cassette)
Call Number 973 Z

Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by R. M. Dworkin
Call Number 305 D

The Story of American Freedom by Eric Foner
Call Number 323.44 F

Web sites

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs
The core documents of our democracy can be found here in their entirety, including The
Constitution of the United States, The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights
and the Federalist Papers.

DemocracyNet
www.dnet.org
The DemocracyNet is an informative site provided by the League of Women Voters.

The Democracy Project
www.pbs.org/democracy
The Democracy Project is a PBS site about politics, voting and political awareness with a place
to voice your own opinion.

National Archives and Records Administration Exhibit Hall
www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/charters_of_freedom.html
This site contains transcriptions and digitized images of the founding documents of the American Republic from the National Archives, where the original documents are stored.

The Pledge of Allegiance: A Short History
www.ifx.net/%7Ewjohnson/pledge.htm
This site provides a brief history of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Tolerance.Org – A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
www.tolerance.org
This searchable site’s goal is “to awaken people of all ages to the problem of hate and intolerance [and] to equip them with the best tolerance ideas.”