Read previous installments in this series here. It is now difficult to find the 1776 Commission Report, but I managed to locate a copy in the Internet Archive. The authors begin with the Articles of Confederation. The report teaches a...
Articles of Confederation
“The Culture of the Confederation Era”
The Panorama, the online site of The Journal of the Early Republic, is running an informative roundtable on the United States under the Articles of Confederation. Here is a taste of Rosemarie Zagarri‘s introduction to the roundtable: In March 2020,...
The Problem of the 1780s
Over at The Nation, historian Richard Kreitner interviews Seattle University Law Professor George William Van Cleave about his new book We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution.  I hope to read Van Cleave’s book...
Richard Bernstein Weighs-In on the Chaplin-Cruz Dust-Up
Last night while scanning Facebook I ran across Richard Bernstein’s take on this whole Joyce Chaplin-Ted Cruz debate. He was gracious enough to let me share it here. Bernstein is a historian who teaches law at New York Law School....
Virtual Office Hours: U.S. History Survey Edition–Episode 14
“The Articles of Confederation and the Collapse of Virtue” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9h6RSBOvM]...