Related Online Resources

Additional online information regarding the Articles of Confederation can be found on the following sections of the Library's website.

Exhibitions

Creating the United States
This online exhibition offers insights into how the nation’s founding documents were forged and the role that imagination and vision played in the unprecedented creative act of forming a self–governing country. The section of the exhibition Road to the Constitution contains a number of documents related to the Articles of Confederation.

Selected highlights from this exhibition:

The Teachers Page

American Memory Timeline: Policies and Problems of the Confederation Government
Provides an overview of the Confederation Government and links to related documents.

Today in History

November 15, 1777
On November 15, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.
September 17, 1787
Members of the Constitutional Convention signed the final draft of the Constitution on September 17, 1787.

Video

Title: The Articles of Confederation

Event Date: November 15, 2019

Summary: Nathan Dorn discusses the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, the first Constitution of the United States. A 1777 printing of these articles is part of the Law Library of Congress' rare book collection.

World Digital Library

The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.

Articles of Confederation

Articles of Confederation: Primary Documents in American History

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