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General Reference | Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 |
1789-1800 | 1801-1860 | 1861-1875 | Younger Readers

  General Reference

Byrd, Robert C. The Senate, 1789-1989. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1988. LC Call Number: JK1158 .B97 1988

Castel, Albert E., and Scott L. Gibson. The Yeas and the Nays: Key Congressional Decisions, 1774-1945. Kalamazoo: New Issues Press, Institute of Public Affairs, Western Michigan University, 1975. LC Call Number: JK1021 .C37

Schamel, Charles E. et al. Guide to the Records of the United States House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989. Washington, D.C.: U.S. House of Representatives, 1989. LC Call Number: CD3042.H68 U55 1989

Miller, Cynthia Pease, ed. A Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1987. Washington, D.C.: The Office, 1988. LC Call Number: CD3043 .G84 1988

Nabors, Eugene. Legislative Reference Checklist: The Key to Legislative Histories from 1789-1903. Littleton, Colo.: Rothman, 1982. LC Call Number: KF49 .L43 1982

Paul, Karen Dawley. Guide to Research Collections of Former United States Senators, 1789-1995: A Listing of Archival Repositories Housing the Papers of Former Senators, Related Collections, and Oral History Interviews. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1995. LC Call Number: CD3043 .P39 1995

Coren, Robert W. et al. Guide to the Records of the United States Senate at the National Archives, 1789-1989. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Senate, 1989. LC Call Number: CD3042.S46 U54 1989

  Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789

Anderson, Thornton. Creating the Constitution: The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. LC Call Number: KF4541 .A88 1993

Ashworth, Marjorie. To Create a Nation: The Constitutional Convention of 1787. McLean, Va.: Link Press, 1987. LC Call Number: KF4520 .A77 1987

Benton, Wilbourn E., ed. 1787: Drafting the U.S. Constitution. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986. LC Call Number: KF4510.A135 1986

Burnett, Edmund Cody. The Continental Congress. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975. LC Call Number: E303 .B93 1975

Collier, Christopher, and James Lincoln Collier. Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787. New York: Random House: Reader's Digest, 1986. LC Call Number: KF4520 .C65 1986

Henderson, H. James. Party Politics in the Continental Congress. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1987. LC Call Number: JK1033 .H43 1987

Hutson, James H., ed. Supplement to Max Farrand's the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. LC Call Number: KF4510 .U547 1966 Suppl.

Jillson, Calvin, and Rick Wilson. Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination, and Choice in the First American Congress, 1774-1789. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994. LC Call Number: JK1033 .J55 1994

Levy, Leonard W., and Dennis J. Mahoney, eds. The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1987. LC Call Number: KF4541 .F7 1987

Montross, Lynn. The Reluctant Rebels: The Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1970. LC Call Number: E303 .M82 1970

Onuf, Peter S., ed. Congress and the Confederation. New York: Garland, 1991. LC Call Number: E164.N45 1991 vol. 4 E303

Rakove, Jack N. The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. LC Call Number: E210 .R34 1982

Scott, James Brown. James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and Their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations. Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2001. LC Call Number: KF4520 .S37 2001

Solberg, Winton U., ed. The Constitutional Convention and the Formation of the Union. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. LC Call Number: KF4510 .C66 1990

Wood, Gordon S. The Making of the Constitution. Waco, Tex.: Markham Press Fund, Baylor University Press, 1987. LC Call Number: JK157 .W66 1987

Wehmann, Howard H. A Guide to Pre-Federal Records in the National Archives. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1989. LC Call Number: CD3045.W44 1989

Winthrop, Robert C. Washington, Bowdoin, and Franklin, as Portrayed in Occasional Addresses. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1876. LC Call Number: E302.5.W79 1876 (View Page images)

  1789-1800

Bell, Rudolph M. Party and Faction in American Politics: The House of Representatives, 1789-1801. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973. LC Call Number: JK1323 1789 .B4

Bickford, Charlene Bangs, and Kenneth R. Bowling. Birth of the Nation: The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1989. LC Call Number: JK1059 1st .B53 1989b

Bowling, Kenneth R., and Donald R. Kennon, eds. The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development. Athens, Ohio: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, 2002. LC Call Number: JK1041 .H68 2002

Bowling, Kenneth R., and Donald R. Kennon, eds. Neither Separate nor Equal: Congress in the 1790s. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. LC Call Number: JK1041 .N45 2000

Bowling, Kenneth R. Politics in the First Congress, 1789-1791. New York: Garland, 1990. LC Call Number: JK1059 1st .B68 1990

Currie, David P. The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period 1789-1801. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. LC Call Number: KF4541 .C834 1997

Grant De Pauw, Linda. Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press: LC Call Number: KF350 .D63 1972

Hoadley, John F. Origins of American Political Parties, 1789-1803. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. LC Call Number: JK2260 .H63 1986

Silbey, Joel H., ed. The Congress of the United States: Its Origins and Early Development. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson, 1991. LC Call Number: JK1021 .C556 1991

Swanstrom, Roy. The United States Senate, 1787-1801: A Dissertation on the First Fourteen Years of the Upper Legislative Body. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1985. LC Call Number: JK1158 .S9 1985

United States. Congress. A Second Federalist: Congress Creates a Government. Selected from the Annals of Congress by Charles S. Hyneman and George W. Carey. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1970. LC Call Number: J11 .A6 1970

Williams, Robert Percy. The First Congress, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791: A Compilation of Significant Debates. New York: Exposition Press, 1970. LC Call Number: JK1059 1st .W5

  1801-1860

Currie, David P. The Constitution in Congress: The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. LC Call Number: KF4541 .C835 2001

Miller, William Lee. Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1996. LC Call Number: E338 .M65 1996

Shields, Johanna Nicol. The Line of Duty: Maverick Congressmen and the Development of American Political Culture, 1836-1860. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. LC Call Number: E338 .S535 1985

Silbey, Joel H., ed. The United States Congress in a Transitional Era, 1800-1841: The Interplay of Party, Faction, and Section. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1991. LC Call Number: JK1041 .U56 1991

Silbey, Joel H., ed. The United States Congress in a Partisan Political Nation, 1841-1896. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1991. LC Call Number: JK1041 .U55 1991

Swift, Elaine K. The Making of an American Senate: Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787-1841. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. LC Call Number: JK1161 .S95 1996

  1861-1875

Avins, Alfred, comp. The Reconstruction Amendments' Debates: The Legislative History and Contemporary Debates in Congress on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Richmond: Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, 1967. LC Call Number: KF4756.A29 A9

Barnes, William H. History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. LC Call Number: E666 .B25 1969

Benedict, Michael Les. A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869. New York: Norton, 1974. LC Call Number: E668 .B46

Boykin, Edward. Congress and the Civil War. New York: McBride, 1955. LC Call Number: E415.7 .B65

Brock, William Ranulf. An American Crisis: Congress and Reconstruction, 1865-1867. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963. LC Call Number: E668 .B85

Curry, Leonard P. Blueprint for Modern America: Non-Military Legislation of the First Civil War Congress. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968. LC Call Number: E459 .C96

Lucie, Patricia Allan. Freedom and Federalism: Congress and Courts, 1861-1866. New York: Garland, 1986. LC Call Number: KF8719 .L83

Maltz, Earl M. Civil Rights, the Constitution, and Congress, 1863-1869. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1990. LC Call Number: KF4757 .M29 1990

Nash, Howard Pervear. Andrew Johnson: Congress and Reconstruction. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1972. LC Call Number: E668 .N24

Seip, Terry L. The South Returns to Congress: Men, Economic Measures, and Intersectional Relationships, 1868-1879. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. LC Call Number: HC105.7 .S44 1983

Wilson, Henry. History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865-68. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, 1970. LC Call Number: E668 .W74 1970

  Younger Readers

Banks, Joan. The U.S. Constitution. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2001. LC Call Number: KF4541 .B3124 2001

Burgan, Michael. The Declaration of Independence. Minneapolis: Compass Point Books, 2001. LC Call Number: E221 .B945 2001

Collier, Christopher, and James Lincoln Collier. Creating the Constitution, 1787. New York: Benchmark Books, 1999. LC Call Number: E303 .C59 1999

Freedman, Russell. Give me Liberty!: The Story of the Declaration of Independence. New York: Holiday House, 2000. LC Call Number: E221 .F84 2000

Fradin, Dennis B. The Signers: The 56 Stories behind the Declaration of Independence. New York: Walker & Co., 2002. LC Call Number: E221 .F83 2002

Kronenwetter, Michael. The Congress of the United States. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow, 1996. LC Call Number: JK1025 .K76 1996

Oberle, Lora Polack. The Declaration of Independence. Mankato, Minn.: Bridgestone Books, 2002. LC Call Number: E221 .O24 2002

Nardo, Don. The U.S. Congress. San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, 1994. LC Call Number: JK1061 .N37 1994

Ritchie, Donald A. The Congress of the United States: A Student Companion. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. LC Call Number: JK1025 .R58 2001

Weidner, Daniel W. Creating the Constitution: The People and Events that Formed the Nation. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow, 2002. LC Call Number: E303 .W44 2002

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