Independence Day evokes feelings of remembrance, reverence, appreciation, celebration, spirit, freedom, and pride…  Here are a few selections from our collection:

Declaring Independence : The Origin and Influence of America’s Founding Document by David G. McCullough
Call Number: KF4506.D43 2008
This title features the Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection at the University of Virginia Library, and is a rich resource for discovering the origin and influence of America’s founding document.

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Call Number: E302.6.H2C48 2004
Chernow’s biography of one of the controversial founding fathers, whose achievements included being the first Secretary of the Treasury, co-author of The Federalist Papers, and member of the Constitutional Convention. The biography was adapted into a musical, Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, which opened on Broadway in August 2015.

Jefferson’s Pen : The Art of Persuasion by Arthur L. Rizer III
Call Number: PN207.R59 2016
This book’s focus is to learn from Jefferson as a persuasive writer. By examining Jefferson’s successes and failures, the author highlights the characteristics that made him such a successful persuader and those failures that detracted from that success.

Madison’s Music : On Reading the First Amendment by Burt Neuborne
Call Number: KF4558 1st .N48 2015
Neuborne argues that the First Amendment, in James Madison’s forty-five musical words, tells the story of democracy in action, with ideas of freedom of conscience, freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and freedom to petition.

1776 by David G. McCullough
Call Number: E208.M396 2005
McCullough covers the extensive military groundwork that took place during the monumental year in our nation’s history.

Independence Day DVD
Call Number: PN1995.9.S26I53 2013 DVD
2013 release of the 1996 blockbuster.  The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Showing true American spirit, mankind’s best weapon is the will to survive.