A Timely Factoid.

Former slaves held the first Decoration (Memorial) Day ceremony for fallen Union soldiers

Just found this out, while researching the day.

Necessary Documents

Founding Documents

This sight has all of them, in many formats. If you only download a few:
1. The Declaration of Independence,
2. The Constitution, and
3. The Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers. These are amazing, because you can see the actual arguments and reasons for the parts of the Constitution, before it was written. These alone will destroy almost any argument of the true intents of the founding fathers.

If you can, also get the writings of Jefferson and Washington.

These are the meetings, written by Alexander Hamilton, of the writing of the Constitution. Sounds boring, (at times is), but if you put yourself in the time and the moment, is fascinating.
Debates of the Federal Convention

Old History Books

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Paine: "Common Sense," and "The Crisis"

"The Road to Serfdom"- Friedrich Hayek

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson

Other Reads

The Famous French Book which Glenn Beck recommends, on the recent uprisings in Greece

Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 : Woodrow Wilson's Fictional Hero.

Atlas

1984 audiobook

"The Betrayal of the American Right,"- Ludwig von Mises (libertarian)

From early religious leaders mentioned by Beck:

Selected Sermons of George Whitefield

Another Beck:

5000 audiobook