Introduction / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith
"Parties are unavoidable" : path dependence and the origins of party politics in the United States / Douglas Bradburn
Rethinking the origins of partisan democracy in the United States, 1795-1840 / Reeve Huston
Party, nation, and cultural rupture : the crisis of the American Civil War / John L. Brooke
Jeffersonian parties, politics, and participation : the tortuous trajectory of American democracy / Andrew W. Robertson
An "era of no feelings"? : rethinking the relationship between political parties and popular participation in the early United States / Daniel Peart
Was there a second party system? : Illinois as a case study in antebellum politics / Graham A. Peck
Legitimacy, localism, and the first party system / Kenneth Owen
"Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must" : immigrants and popular politics in precivil war New York / Tyler Anbinder
Small men, best men, and the big city : reconstructing political culture in antebellum Philadelphia / Andrew Heath
Approaches to democratization : engagement versus capability / Johann N. Neem
Afterword / Daniel Peart and Adam I.P. Smith.