Ken Bowling, Independent Historian
Please join the U.S. Capitol Historical Society as Ken Bowling discusses historians’ attempts to locate the 14 original copies of the “so-called Bill of Rights.”
Grateful thanks to our friends at the National Churchill Library and Center for hosting this lecture!
Kenneth R. Bowling was born and raised in Baltimore, from which he made many trips to Washington by train in the 1950s. It was then that he met United States Capitol Historical Society founding member Myrtle Cheney Murdock, who introduced him to the treasures and history of the Capitol. She inspired in him a lifelong interest in the building and early American history. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1962 and received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Wisconsin in 1968. Ken has written many articles and two books of particular interest to Society members, The Creation of Washington D.C. (1991) and Peter Charles L’Enfant (2002). He served as co-editor of the multi-volume Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 at The George Washington University.
underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.
") are described as follows: