Partnership Programs: American Revolution Native American Series Southeast Asian Tour STEMTEC Teachers as Scholars Witness for Freedom American Revolution: Resources {Books, lesson plans, links, videos, and more} Evaluations {Read what the participants have to say about each session.} "To Form a More Perfect Union" (PDF) Read the article printed in Five College Ink magazine about the series (PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 to view. Download free program) Theme: Sovereignty: Who Rules, Who is Ruled, and By What Means Faculty: Alice Nash, University of Massachusetts Virginia Ahart recently retired after teaching Social Studies/History for more than thirty years, the last twenty seven at Hampshire Regional High School. She has been a participant in a number of Five College Partnership Programs including Daniel Shays and the Writing of the Constitution and has served on the planning committee for the New England Native American Experience series since its inception. Currently Virginia is doing educational consulting for several organizations. The thirteen colonies united under the principle that they could declare sovereignty from Britain. But what is sovereignty? And, as with liberty, we must ask, "sovereignty for whom?" Our discussion of sovereignty will consider the competing visions asserted by states (in opposition to the federal government) and Indian nations (in opposition to state and federal claims). (Reading List February 2, 2002) Bailyn, Bernard, "Sovereignty", The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967) pp. 198-229. "Declaration of Independence", [1776] (Washington: Department of State, 1911), pp.1-8. Garraty, John A. ed., "Dartmouth College Case", Quarrels that Have Shaped the Constitution, (New York: Harper & Row, 1964) pp. 21-35. Garraty, John A. ed., "The Dred Scott Case", Quarrels that Have Shaped the Constitution, (New York: Harper & Row, 1964) pp. 87-99. Ketcham, Ralph ed., The Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates, (New York: Penguin Books, 1986) pp. 86-89. Kramnick, Isaac ed., The Federalist Papers, (New York: Penguin Books, 1987) pp. 220-223, 286-292. Newcomb, Steve, "Five Hundred Years of Injustice", Shaman's Drum, Fall 1992 pp. 18-20. (http://ili.nativeweb.org/sdrm_art.html). Prucha, Francis Paul, "The Policy of Indian Removal", The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986) pp183-213.