We note with interest the website Creating a Federal Government, created by Peter J. Kastor, Washington University, St. Louis, which
combines a book that chronicles how the federal government operated in
its first decades of existence with a major digital archive that will reconstruct the scope and scale of the early federal workforce. The Website will contain a full listing of federal officials, both civil and military, and will enable users to analyze the careers of these officials at both the individual and aggregate levels. Creating a Federal Government continues Kastor’s commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry by bridging the gap between history and political science, engaging questions in American political development, presidential history, and institutional behavior. This project also reflects over three decades of work in digital history.
--Dan Ernst. H/t: GR
