Located at The George Washington University, the First Federal Congress Project is preparing a comprehensive 19 volume edition of the official and unofficial papers of the FFC in the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 (DHFFC). Fourteen volumes have been published by the Johns Hopkins University Press to date, including 8 volumes of official records (journals [1-3], legislative histories [4-6], Petition Histories: Revolutionary War--Related Claims [7] and Petition Histories and Nonlegislative Official Documents [8]) and the six volume debates series (The Diary of Senator William Maclay and Other Notes on Senate Debates [9] and 5 volumes of Debates in the House of Representatives [10-14]). All volumes of the series are available from the publisher, The Johns Hopkins University Press.

The First Federal Congress Project also serves as a research center on the First Federal Congress, assisting researchers, the federal government, attorneys, members of the media, and others to research and understand this critically important Congress. Project staff members have lectured widely on subjects related to the First Federal Congress and taught numerous teacher training institutes and college courses. The FFCP staff has also published two additional books: Bickford, Charlene Bangs and Kenneth R. Bowling, Birth of the Nation: the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 (Madison House, Madison, WI, 1989), a concise history of the First Federal Congress. Creating the Bill of Rights: the Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress. Helen E. Veit, Charlene Bangs Bickford and Kenneth R. Bowling eds. (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1991).

Project staff includes Charlene Bangs Bickford, coeditor and project director, Kenneth R. Bowling, coeditor, Helen E. Veit, associate editor, and William C. diGiacomantonio, associate editor.

Vol. 1. Senate Legislative Journal. Linda Grant De Pauw, Editor. Charlene Bangs Bickford and LaVonne Marlene Siegel, Assistant Editors. 1972. 874 pp. ISBN 0-8018-1280-1

Vol. 2. Senate Executive Journal and Related Documents. Linda Grant DePauw, Editor. Charlene Bangs Bickford and LaVonne Marlene Siegel, Assistant Editors. 1974. 574 pp. ISBN 0-8018-1572-X

Vol. 3. House of Representatives Journal. Linda Grant De Pauw, Editor. Charlene Bangs Bickford and LaVonne Siegel Hauptman, Associate Editors. 1977. 900 pp. ISBN 0-8018-1819-2

Vol. 4. Legislative Histories: Amendments to the Constitution through Foreign Officers Bill [HR-116]. Charlene Bangs Bickford and Helen E. Veit, Editors. 1986. 711 pp. ISBN 0-8018-3163-6

Vol. 5. Legislative Histories: Funding Act [HR-63] through Militia Bill [HR-112]. Charlene Bangs Bickford and Helen E. Veit, Editors. 1986. 776 pp. ISBN 0-8018-3167-9

Vol. 6. Legislative Histories: Mitigation of Fines Bill [HR-38] through Resolution on Unclaimed Western Lands. Charlene Bangs Bickford and Helen E. Veit, Editors. 1986. 736 pp. ISBN 0-8018-3169-5

Vol. 7. Petition Histories: Revolutionary War-related Claims. Charlene Bangs Bickford, William C. diGiacomantonio, and Kenneth R. Bowling, Editors. 1998. 636 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5565-9

Vol. 8. Petition Histories and Non-Legislative Official Documents. Charlene Bangs Bickford, William C. diGiacomantonio, and Kenneth R. Bowling, Editors. 1998. 912 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5566-7

Vol. 9. The Diary of William Maclay and Other Notes on Senate Debates. Kenneth R. Bowling and Helen E. Veit, Editors. 1988. 560 pp. ISBN 0-8018-3535-6

Vol. 10. Debates in the House of Representatives, First Session, April-May 1789. Charlene Bangs Bickford, Kenneth R. Bowling, and Helen E. Veit, Editors. 1992. 864 pp. ISBN 0-8018-4177- 1

Vol. 11. Debates in the House of Representatives, First Session, June-September 1789. Charlene Bangs Bickford, Kenneth R. Bowling, and Helen E. Veit, Editors. 1992. 768 pp. ISBN 0-8018-4178- X

Vol. 12. Debates in the House of Representatives, Second Session, January-March 1790. Helen E. Veit, Charlene Bangs Bickford, Kenneth R. Bowling, and William C. diGiacomantonio, Editors. 1995. 976 pp. ISBN 0-8018-4576-9

Vol. 13. Debates in the House of Representatives, Second Session, April-August 1790. Helen E. Veit, Charlene Bangs Bickford, Kenneth R. Bowling, and William C. diGiacomantonio, Editors. 1995. 888 pp. ISBN 0-8018-4577-7

Vol. 14. Debates in the House of Representatives, Third Session, December 1790-March 1791. William C. diGiacomantonio, Kenneth R. Bowling, Charlene Bangs Bickford, and Helen E. Veit, Editors. 1996. 1,000 pp. ISBN 0-8018-5015-0