All library locations are closed Monday, May 27 in observance of Memorial Day.
The Main Library's Grand Reading Room and Nonfiction Section seating area are closed May 15–22 for refurbishment.
Donelson Branch Library's present location permanently closes at end-of-business Saturday, June 1. Please join us to celebrate the new facility's opening on Monday, June 24! Get details here.
"This book provides a look at the creation of some of America's important documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights"--Provided by publisher.
This book describes how the delegates from the states had to start dealing with rebuilding the nation's economy, paying off war debts, restoring farms, and restructuring the laws of the government.
Explores the years during and immediately following the American Revolution and how delegates from the thirteen colonies created the U.S. Constitution.
A dramatization of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 which led to the replacement of the Articles of Conferation with a new Constitution creating the United States of America.
Liberty! is a exuberant documentary about the American Revolution and our fight for freedom. It chronicles the events leading up to the declaration of war and the lasting effects these events had on shaping our country today.
Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles, and speeches depict life and events in the American colonies in the second half of the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on the years of the Revolutionary War.