Bibliographic Essay on Electronic Resources for Constitutional History

Hat tip to Nolan Wright, Reference Librarian at Tarlton Law Library for calling attention to UT law prof Calvin Johnson's Really Cool Stuff: Digital Searches into the Constitutional Period, 25 Constitutional Commentary 51 (Spring 2008). The note reports on how research being performed about the history of the Constitutional period has been affected by the electronic availability of resources for the period in which the Constitution was drafted and adopted. Essentially, it is a very useful bibliographic essay by a scholar in the field. Do note the concluding section on what's not yet online: "The leaders of the last scholarly revolution, who collected the scattered letters into volumes with commentaries, are the laggards of the digital revolution. The university presses that published the learned multivolume annotated editions of the Founders' letters have not put the papers online." [JH]