Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

3/1/1977 - 5/31/1980

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$139,611.00 (approved)
$139,611.00 (awarded)


The Modern Congress and American History

FAIN: RO-*0336-77

Former Members of Congress (Washington, DC 20009-5704)
Robert L. Peabody (Project Director: November 1976 to October 1990)

To document the recent history of the U.S. Congress by preserving the papers and spoken recollections of former members of Congress. To work with retiring Congressmen, and with hundreds who retired before them, about depositing their papers in archival institutions and narrating their legislative experiences in tape-recorded interviews with trained oral historians.