Introduction: Beyond the founders / David Waldstreicher ... [et al.]
PART I. DEMOCRACY AND OTHER PRACTICES
The cheese and the words: popular political culture and participatory democracy in the early American republic / Jeffrey L. Pasley
Voting rites and voting acts: electioneering ritual, 1790-1820 / Andrew W. Robertson
Why Thomas Jefferson and African Americans wore their politics on their sleeves: dress and mobilization between American Revolutions / David Waldsreicher
PART II. GENDER, RACE, AND OTHER IDENTITIES
Women and party conflict in the early republic / Rosemarie Zagarri
The "Little emperor": Aaron Burr, dandyism, and the sexual politics of treason / Nancy Isenberg
Young federalists, masculinity, and partisanship during the War of 1812 / Albrecht Koschnik
Protest in black and white: the formation and transformation of an African American political community during the early republic / Richard Newman
PART III. NORMS AND FORMS
Consent, civil society, and the public sphere in the age of revolution and the early American republic / John L. Brooke
Beyond the myth of consensus: the struggle to define the right to bear arms in the early republic / Sam Cornell
The federalists' transatlantic cultural offensive of 1798 and the moderation of American democratic discourse / Seth Cotlar
PART IV. INTERESTS, SPACES, AND OTHER STRUCTURES
Continental politics: liberalism, nationalism, and the appeal of Texas in the 1820s / Andrew R.L. Cayton
Private enterprise, public good?: communications deregulation as a national political issue, 1839-1851 / Richard R. John
Popular movements and party rule: the New York anti-rent wars and the Jacksonian political order / Reeve Huston
Commentary: Deja vu all over again: is there a new new political history? / William G. Shade.