O'Connor's Boston / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. -- "A long train of hideous consequences" : Boston, capital punishment, and the transformation of Republicanism, 1780-1805 / Alan Rogers -- Power and social responsibility : entrepreneurs and the Black community in Antebellum Boston / Lois E. Horton and James Oliver Horton -- The secret world of radical publishers : the case of Thayer and Eldridge of Boston / Albert J. von Frank -- "Lawless and unprincipled" : women in Boston's Civil War draft riot / Judith Ann Giesberg -- Portrait of a parish : race, ethnicity, and class in Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1865-1880 / James M. O'Toole -- Charles Sumner and the political cultures of reconstruction in Massachusetts / David Quigley -- The Irish question and Boston politics / Lawrence W. Kennedy -- Contested bodies and souls : immigrant converts in Boston, 1890-1940 / Kristen A. Petersen -- "A strong argument for juries" : the saga of Willett v. Herrick / Mark I. Gelfand -- The politics of sex and race in Boston's NAACP, 1920- |