Additional Resources – “Ballast for the Ship of State” The U.S. Senate – 40 Resources for High School Students
- The Federalist Papers: 62 (1788), by “Publius” James Madison
- The Constitution of the United States, Article. I. Section. 3., The National Archives
- A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States, by Thomas Jefferson
- Filibuster in the United States Senate
- Thomas H. Benton (American Statesmen Series), by Theodore Roosevelt
- The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union: Selected Documents, by Herman Belz (Editor)
- The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun, by Merrill D. Peterson
- Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time, by Robert V. Remini
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The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster: With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style By Edwin P. Whipple
- Henry Clay: The Essential American, by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
- America’s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union, by Fergus M. Bordewich
- Union And Liberty: The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun, by John C. Calhoun (Author) and Ross M. Lence (Editor)
- Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union, by Robert V. Remini
- Stephen A. Douglas, by Robert Walter Johannsen
- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text, by Abraham Lincoln & Stephen A. Douglas, Harold Holzer (Editor)
- Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, by David Donald
- The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War, by Stephen Puleo
- The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, by Brenda Wineapple
- Classic Senate Speeches, United States Senate
- The Road to Mass Democracy: Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment, by C. H. Hoebeke
- The Senate and The League of Nations, by Henry Cabot Lodge
- Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, by Nancy C. Unger
- Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century, by Hendrik Meijer
- Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft, by James T. Patterson
- Everett Dirksen and His Presidents: How a Senate Giant Shaped American Politics, by Byron C. Hulsey
- Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy, by Larry Tye
- Politics of Conscience: A Biography of Margaret Chase Smith, by Patricia Ward Wallace
- Master Of The Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro
- JFK in the Senate: Pathway to the Presidency, by John T. Shaw
- Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution, by Lee Edwards
- The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer, by Chris Myers Asch
- Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon, by Larry Tye
- Bridging the Divide: My Life, by Edward Brooke
- The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis, by Ira Shapiro
- The Senate 1789-1989 Addresses on the History of the United States Senate (4 volumes), by Sen. Robert C. Byrd
- The Senate of the Roman Republic: Addresses on the History of Roman Constitutionalism, by Sen. Robert C. Byrd and the Senate Historical Office