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  James Madison Timeline A chronology of the key events in the life of James Madison, 1751-1836.
• An Introduction to the Life and Papers of James Madison An essay by John C. A. Stagg, editor-in-chief of The Papers of James Madison, University of Virginia.

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  James Madison's Ciphers An introduction to the ciphers Madison used to keep the information in his letters secret.

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  James Madison and the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787 An essay documenting Madison as intellectual leader and keeper of the memory of the gathering that created the United States Constitution in the summer of 1787.
• Provenance of the James Madison Papers In this essay Dorothy S. Eaton, formerly the specialist in early American history in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, describes how the Library came to own James Madison's papers.