• O'Connor's Boston (Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"A long train of hideous consequences": Boston, Capital Punishment, and the Transformation of Republicanism, 1780-1805 (Alan Rogers, Boston College)

Power and Social Responsibility: Entrepreneurs and the Black Community in Antebellum Boston (Lois E. Horton, George Mason University, and James Oliver Horton, George Washington University)

The Secret World of Radical Publishers: Thayer and Eldridge of Boston (Albert Von Frank, Washington State University)

"Lawless and Unprincipled": Women in Boston's Civil War Draft Riot (Judith Ann Giesberg, Villanova University)

Portrait of a Parish: Class, Ethnicity, and Race at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1865-1880 (James O'Toole, Boston College)

Charles Sumner and the Political Cultures of Reconstruction in Boston (David Quigley, Boston College)

The Irish Home Rule Issue and Boston Politics (Lawrence Kennedy, University of Scranton)

Contested Bodies and Souls: Immigrant Converts in Boston, 1890-1940 (Kristen Petersen, Brown University)

"A strong argument for juries": The Saga of Willett v. Herrick (Mark I. Gelfand, Boston College)

The Politics of Sex and Race in Boston's NAACP, 1920-1940 (Sarah Deutsch, University of Arizona)

Boston, The Last Hurrah, and the Pluralist Vision of American Politics (James Connolly, Ball State University)

The Failure of Catholic Interracialism in Boston before Busing (William Leonard, Emmanuel College)

The Catholic Church and the Desegregation of Boston's Public Schools (James E. Glinski, Xaverian Brothers High School)