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Congressional History, OAH Magazine of History

Congressional History
Volume 12, no 4, Summer 1998


FROM THE EDITOR
Exploring Congressional History
Richard Allan Baker

HISTORIOGRAPHY
Congressional History: A Literature Review
Kenneth Kato and Elizabeth Rybicki

ESSAYS
The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Congress, 1933-1945
Patrick J. Maney

What Makes a Successful Congressional Investigation?
Donald A. Ritchie

Kings of the Hill: The Speakers of the United States House of Representatives
Raymond W. Smock

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates on the Internet
Emily Lind Baker

Using the Records of Congress in the Classroom
Richard Hunt

LESSON PLANS
Relief, Recovery, Reform: The New Deal Congressional Reaction to the Great Depression
Rita G. Koman

Investigating the Watergate Scandal
Donald A. Ritchie

The House Gag Rule Debate: A Wedge Dividing North and South
Richard P. Kollen

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Personality Profiles from the First Federal Congress
Charlene Bangs Bickford and William C. diGiacomantonio

Congressional History: An ERIC/ChESS Sample
Matthew Paris

ON TEACHING
Teaching the American Civil War in the Twenty-First Century
William F. Mugleston

DIALOGUE
Keeping a Perspective on Computer Technology
Jonathan Bassett

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