Inaugurating a new government, March-April 1789
The first session of the 1st Congress, March-September 1789
New York, Philadelphia, and ideological conflict, 1790-1797
A new beginning in Washington, 1798-1807
Henry Clay and the ascendancy of the House of Representatives, 1806-1821
A democratized House, 1822-1846
The struggle to save the Union, 1846-1860
Reconstruction, 1865-1877
The Gilded Age, 1869-1895
"Czar" Reed and "Uncle Joe" Cannon, 1888-1910
The Speaker eclipsed and revived, 1910-1928
The Great Depression, the New Deal and the outbreak of war, 1928-1941
The Hot and Cold Wars, 1941-1952
The Gatekeeper and the fight for Civil Rights, 1953-1961
The Great Society, voting rights, and Vietnam, 1961-1969
Scandal, Watergate, and Reform, 1969-1980
The conservative revolution, 1981-2001.
