Hear about the origins\, course\, and cons equences of one of the most important\, but least-known episodes in the zi g-zag path towards the Federal Convention of 1787\, and how its moving spi rit helped produce the U.S. Constitution. \;diGiacomantonio reveals th e stakes and stakeholders who transformed the economic and political regul ation of the Potomac River into a greater argument underlying the U.S.'s e arly constitutional development.
\nWilliam diGiacomantonio credits h is love of early American history to growing up in the Boston area during the nation's first great bicentennial of the 1970s. He graduated from Geor getown University and the University of Chicago before joining the editori al team of The George Washington University's First Federal Congress Proje ct in the other great bicentennial year\, 1989. He helped edit the 22-volu me Documentary History of the First Federal Congress\, 1789-1791 until bec oming Chief Historian of the US Capitol Historical Society\, 2015-20. In a ddition to studying and writing about early American constitutional histor y\, "Chuck" is interested in Quaker history\, creative writing\, and bicyc ling around DC.
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