Founding the Federal Union aims to capture the processes of negotiation surrounding the drafting of the United States Constitution. The collection consists of digital models of the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the 1789 Bill of Rights and collated archival materials. Cutting edge visualizations extract the narrative contained the archive materials in order to demonstrate how constitutional text was created and enacted on the word level and, amendment by amendment, arrived at the United States’ foundational text.
Commentary Collections