Title: Inventing Congress
Description: Inventing Congress collects the best available scholarship on the First Federal Congress, revisiting the record from a perspective of two hundred years. Fresh, informative, and enlightening, the essays touch on some of the formidable challenges facing the leaders of the new republic. The papers collected in Inventing Congress originated in two conferences held in 1994 and 1995 sponsored by the United States Capitol Historical Society in its series, "Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789-1801."
Subjects: Politics and government, United States, United States. Congress, Congresses, History, United states, congress, history, United states, politics and government, 1789-1815
Places: United States
Time periods: 1797-1801, 1789-1797