Feb 3, 2022 · A gallery of Artistic Interpretations of the Constitutional Convention” by American artists throughout history. Entertainment of George Washington at City Tavern offers amusing details of the social aspects of the Convention.

Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention. Junius Brutus Stearns (1856). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 50.2.1. https://www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8052859/

Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States is a 1940 oil-on-canvas painting by Howard Chandler Christy, depicting the Constitutional Convention signing the U.S. Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787.

The center tells the story of the U.S. Constitution through interactive and multimedia exhibits, photographs, texts, films, and artifacts. A striking feature is its Hall of Signers, where visitors can wander among life-size bronze statutes of the framers of the Constitution.

Published in 1911, Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (commonly referred to as Farrand's Records) gathered the documentary records of the Constitutional Convention, making it easier to study the workings of the convention and the formation of the United States Constitution. The Constitutional Convention ran from May 25 ...

Sep 17, 2023 · American History TV visited the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia to learn about the creation of the U.S. Constitution in 1787 and to see several...

This is a rare copy of the first public printing of the United States Constitution. It was made by John Dunlap and David Claypoole, who secretly printed copies of the Constitution's drafts for...

The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 25th to September 17th in 1787. Following our country’s independence from Great Britain the new United States of America had continued operating under the Articles of Confederation (1777).

The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787, at Independence Hall (then known as the Pennsylvania State House). The convention drafted the United States Constitution, the world’s oldest written national constitution still in use.

Over one million archaeological artifacts were unearthed on the site of the National Constitution Center from 2000-2003, making it the richest find of colonial artifacts in an urban area in America. The Center received its copy of the first public printing of the U.S. Constitution on September 11, 2001 (almost 3 years before opening).