The final volume of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Adoption of the Bill of Rights was published. Between 1976 and 2025 forty-seven volumes of this monumental series were published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press and the Center for the Study of the American Constitution. These volumes appear digitally on Rotunda and the UW-Madison Libraries Digital Collections.
DHRC volumes are available at no cost through the University of Wisconsin Libraries’ Digital Collections. Digital volumes will be available two years after they are published in book form. Online access is also available by subscription through Rotunda, a digital publications collection at the University of Virginia Press. Bound volumes are available at most research libraries and can be purchased from the Wisconsin Historical Society or from our online bookstore.
The following is a complete list of DHRC volumes that you can browse on University of Wisconsin Libraries’ Digital Collections.
Vol. I Constitutional Documents and Records, 1776–1787
Ratification of the Constitution by the States
Vol. II Pennsylvania
Vol. III Delaware ● New Jersey ● Georgia ● Connecticut
Vols. IV–VII Massachusetts (4 vols.)
Vols. VIII–X Virginia (3 vols.)
Vols. XI–XII Maryland (2 vols.)
Vols. XIII–XVIII Commentaries on the Constitution: Public and Private (6 vols.)
Ratification of the Constitution by the States (continued)
Vols. XIX–XXIII New York (5 vols.)
Vols. XXIV–XXVI Rhode Island (3 vols.)
Vol. XXVII South Carolina
Vol. XXVIII New Hampshire
Vol. XXIX Confederation Congress and Vermont
Vols. XXX–XXXI North Carolina (2 vols.)
Vols. XXXII–XXXIV Pennsylvania Supplemental Documents (3 vols.)
Cumulative Index to Volumes I–XXXIV
Vol. XXXV–Names
Vol. XXXVI-Subjects
The Creation and Ratification of the Bill of Rights
Vol. XXXVII (Origins)
Vol. XXXVIII (September 1787-May 1788)
Vol. XXXIX (4 June-December 1788)
Vol. XL (1 January-31 August 1789)
Vol. XLI (2 September 1789-1939)
Supplemental Documents to the State Series of the DHRC Volumes
Vols. XXXII–XXXIV Pennsylvania (3 vols.)
Rhode Island*
New York*
Massachusetts*
Northern States: Vermont ● New Hampshire ● Connecticut ● New Jersey ● Confederation Congress*
Chesapeake States: Delaware ● Maryland ● Virginia*
Southern States: North Carolina ● South Carolina ● Georgia*
* Published by the Center for the Study of the American Constitution
