Antebellum State Constitutions in the Old Northwest

FAIN: FT-51371-03

Silvana R. Siddali
Illinois State University (Normal, IL 61790-0001)

The purpose of my project is to examine the political, geographic, social, and ideological forces that shaped constitution-making in the states formed from the Northwest Territory before the Civil War. A summer stipend from the NEH will allow me to complete the research for a scholarly book on antebellum midwestern state constitutions.