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
HISTORY HEADLINES