Some preliminary thoughts on the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics

I will present some tentative remarks on the origins of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics, based in part on interviews recently conducted by myself and Dean Rickles with several key contributers. These interviews with James Anderson, Stanley Deser, Charles Misner, and Josh Goldberg were partially supported by the Center for the History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, and will eventually be made available on the Center web page.