Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Hidden Lessons of American Citizenship Laws 13
6. 2. Fierce New World: The Colonial Sources of American Citizenship 40
7. 3. Forging a Revolutionary People 1763–1776 70
8. 4. Citizens of Small Republics: The Confederation Era 1776–1789 87
9. 5. The Constitution and the Quest for National Citizenship 115
10. 6. Attempting National Liberal Citizenship: The Federalist Years 1789–1801 137
11. 7. Toward a Commercial Nation of White Yeoman Republics: The Jeffersonian Era, 1801–1829 165
12. 8. High Noon of the White Republic: The Age of Jackson, 1829–1856 197
13. 9. Dred Scott Unchained: The Bloody Birth of the Free Labor Republic, 1857–1866 243
14. 10. The America That “Never Was” The Radical Hour, 1866–1876 286
15. 11. The Gilded Age of Ascriptive Americanism, 1876–1898 347
16. 12. Progressivism and the New American Empire, 1898–1912 410
17. Epilogue: The Party of America 470
18. Notes 507
19. Bibliography 645
20. Index of Cases 673
21. Index 701