Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic

In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal symbolic and tactile this political world encompassed blacks women entrepreneurs and Native Americans as well as the Adamses Jeffersons and Jacksons all struggling in their own ways to shape the new nation and express their ideas of American democracy. Taking inspiration from the new cultural and social histories these political historians show that the early history of the United States was not just the product of a few founding fathers but was also marked by widespread and passionate popular involvement; print media more politically potent than that of later eras; and political conflicts and influences that crossed lines of race gender and class. Contributors: John L. Brooke The Ohio State University Andrew R. L. Cayton Miami University (Ohio) Saul Cornell The Ohio State University Seth Cotlar Willamette University Reeve Huston Duke University Nancy Isenberg University of Tulsa Richard R. John University of Illinois at Chicago Albrecht Koschnik Florida State University Rich Newman Rochester Institute of Technology Jeffrey L. Pasley University of Missouri Columbia Andrew W. Robertson City University of New York William G. Shade Lehigh University David Waldstreicher Temple University Rosemarie Zagarri George Mason University