Cambridge University Press 6/13/2019 This article examines the local roots of the American state to complicate existing historiography. It suggests that, for education and law, the state tapped into local social capital to develop capacity. State and local governments...
University Of Virginia Press 6/1/2015 In Practicing Democracy, eleven historians challenge conventional narratives of democratization in the early United States, offering new perspectives on the period between the ratification of the Constitution and the outbreak of...
The MIT Press 4/1/2011 The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 41, No. 4 (Spring 2011), pp. 591-618
The University Of Chicago Press 2/15/2011 Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase...
MIT Press Direct 4/1/2009 During the early years of the American republic, Connecticut's elite helped to develop a new form of social order, based on voluntary association, replacing the authoritarian, theological hierarchy of the old regime. Social relations, which...
University of Toronto Press 1/1/2006 When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States, he was amazed by the new uses to which Americans put voluntary associations.
University of North Carolina Press 9/1/2004 Journal of the Early Republic Vol. 24, No. 3 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 381-417
Sage Journals 9/1/2003 This article explores the origins of the nonprofit corporation following American independence. Corporations had long been considered state agencies responsible to and under the control of state leaders. Both Federalists and Republicans believed...
University of Pennsylvania Press 7/1/2003 The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 127, No. 3 (Jul., 2003), pp. 259-290