As of October 2020, ConSource has moved to a new home at Pembroke College, in the University of Oxford, and has become part of the Quill Project.
The Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource) connects hundreds of thousands of American citizens of all ages annually to our rich constitutional history by creating a comprehensive, easily searchable, fully-indexed, and freely accessible digital library of historical sources related to the creation, ratification, and amendment of the United States Constitution. Our digital collections are supported by cutting-edge research led by the Quill Project at Oxford University and are enhanced with resources designed to meet the needs of scholars and legal practitioners, educators and students, journalists and the general public.
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Mon, 19 Oct 2020
We are excited to announce that as of October 11, 2020, ConSource will merge with the Quill Project, a research center based at Pembroke College, Oxford. This merger is the culmination of many years of collaboration between the teams at ConSource and Quill. This transatlantic merger will build on ConSource’s 15 years as a leader in the field of US constitutional history and civic education to bring its digital archive, constitutional index, and portfolio of civic education resources to the next level. Dr. Nicholas Cole, a preeminent scholar of US legal history and constitutional thought at Pembroke College, Oxford .
Support us as we seek to digitize for the first time the historical sources relating to the ratification of the Constitution and to make these sources, transcriptions, and tools for analysis available free of charge to the American public through our ConSource and Quill Digital Libraries.
Donations to support ConSource and Quill can be made to Pembroke College or to the Pembroke College Foundation, a non-partisan 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations to that foundation are tax-deductable to the fullest extent of United States law.
