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Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 20
Correspondence: Second Session, July–October 1790
Through decades of searching, the First Federal Congress Project has collected primary material documenting the debates, decisions, and thoughts of the members of the First Federal Congress. The volumes of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress permit Congress and its staff, historians, political scientists, jurists, educators, students, and others to understand the most important and productive Congress in United States history. Three new volumes present letters written by and to members of the First Federal Congress during its Second Session, as well as communications from other informed individuals at the seat of government in New York City during late 1789 and 1790.
The correspondence brings the official record to life by providing details about the often informal political means by which Congress accomplished its agenda. During this session, the Congress addressed the two most divisive issues facing the young nation: funding the debts from the Revolutionary War (particularly the debts incurred by the individual states) and determining locations for both the temporary and permanent seats of the federal government. It resolved these difficult issues through the Compromise of 1790, silencing sectional threats of disunion for the immediate future.
A rich source of information about the members of Congress, their lives in New York, their concerns about their families, and the services they performed for their constituents, the documents from these three new volumes will also be incorporated into The Early Republic, an innovative online reference hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
About the Authors
Charlene Bangs Bickford is director and coeditor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791. Kenneth R. Bowling serves as coeditor of the DHFFC. William C. diGiacomantonio and Helen E. Veit are associate editors of the DHFFC.
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"This series is a rich source of information and scholarship for historians, educators, and students studying early U.S. political history and the early members of Congress."
Endorsements
"A monument of careful yet easily usable scholarship. The formal legislative record always needs to be supplemented by the evidence of personal correspondence. This correspondence is in its own important way a memorial to a crucial moment in the translation of the constitution from founding text into functioning document, because it helped to establish the links necessary to maintain loyalty to the new government."
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Other Titles by United States Congress
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 21
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 22
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 18
Other Titles by Charlene Bangs Bickford
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 21
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 22
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 18
Other Titles by Kenneth R. Bowling
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 21
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 22
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 18
Other Titles by Helen E. Veit
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 21
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 22
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 18
Other Titles by William Charles diGiacomantonio
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 21
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 22
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789–March 3, 1791, Volume 18
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