Articles of Confederation/Bibliography

• Bernstein, R. B. "Parliamentary Principles, American Realities: The Continental and Confederation Congresses, 1774-1789," in Inventing Congress: Origins & Establishment Of First Federal Congress ed by Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon (1999) pp 76-108
• Burnett, Edmund Cody. The Continental Congress: A Definitive History of the Continental Congress From Its Inception in 1774 to March, 1789 (1941)
• Barbara Feinberg, The Articles Of Confederation (2002). [for middle school children.]
• Hoffert, Robert W. A Politics of Tensions: The Articles of Confederation and American Political Ideas (1992).
• Horgan, Lucille E. Forged in War: The Continental Congress and the Origin of Military Supply and Acquisition Policy (2002)
• Jensen, Merrill. The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774-1781 (1959).
• Jensen, Merrill. "The Idea of a National Government During the American Revolution", Political Science Quarterly, 58 (1943), 356-79. online at JSTOR
• Jillson, Calvin, and Rick K. Wilson. Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination, and Choice in the First American Congress, 1774-1789. (1994)
• McDonald, Forest.Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. (1985)
• Mclaughlin, Andrew C. A Constitutional History of the United States (1935) online version
• Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1998).
• Main, Jackson T. Political Parties before the Constitution. University of North Carolina Press, 1974
• Rakove, Jack N. The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (1982).
• Rakove, Jack N. "The Collapse of the Articles of Confederation," in The American Founding: Essays on the Formation of the Constitution. Ed by J. Jackson Barlow, Leonard W. Levy and Ken Masugi. Greenwood Press. 1988. Pp 225-45 ISBN 0313256101