Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1977 - 8/31/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)


The Continental Congress and the Beginnings of National Politics

FAIN: FT-13432-77

Jack N. Rakove
Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305-2004)

To research manuscript collections containing substantial material pertaining to the framing of the Articles of Confederation in the mid-1770s, the struggle over their ratification that took place between 1777 and 1781, and attempts to amend the Articles in the 1780s. This research is part of a larger study of the Continental Congress.