This group covers political leadership during the Continental Congress and the revolutionary institutions that preceded the federal presidency.
This project traces the American presidency back before there was a President in the modern sense, following the thread from the presiding officers of the Continental and Confederation Congresses through the constitutional office that…
On a humid afternoon in the fall of 1774, when the air in Philadelphia still held a faint memory of summer, the delegates to the First Continental Congress returned from dinner to find that…
In the autumn of 1774, long before anyone could imagine a “President of the United States,” a group of men gathered in Philadelphia and improvised a government. They did not call it that, not…
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