John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Nathaniel Niles: the basic principles of puritan political thought / Michael J. Rosano --
Thomas Hutchinson and James Otis on sovereignty, obedience, and rebellion / Howard L. Lubert --
Thomas Paine: the American radical / John Koritansky --
Benjamin Franklin: a model American and an American model / Steven Forde --
Liberty, constitutionalism, and moderation: the political thought of George Washington / Paul O. Carrese --
John Adams and the republic of laws / Richard Samuelson --
Legitimate government, religion, and education: the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson / Aristide Tessitore --
Political science of James Madison / Michael P. Zuckert --
Alexander Hamilton on the strategy of American free government / Karl-Friedrich Walling --
America's modernity: James Wilson on natural law and natural rights / Eduardo A. Velaasquez --
Anti-federalist political thought: Brutus and the federal farmer / Murray Dry --
New constitutionalism of publius / James R. Stoner, Jr. --
Union, constitutionalism, and the judicial defense of rights: John Marshall / Matthew J. Franck --
John Quincy Adams on the principle and practice / David Tucker --
Union and liberty: the political thought of Daniel Webster / Sean Mattie --
Henry Clay and the statesmanship of compromise / Kimberly C. Shankman --
John C. Calhoun and the reexamination of American democracy / John Agresto --
Art of the judge: justice Joseph Story and the founders' constitution / Peter Schotten --
James Fenimore Cooper: nature and nature's God / John E. Alvis --
Religion, nature, and disobedience in the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau / Bryan-Paul Frost --
"Proclaim liberty throughout the land": Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the abolition of slavery / Richard S. Ruderman --
Abraham Lincoln: the moderation of a democratic statesman / Steven Kautz --
Feminism as an American project: the political thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Melissa S. Williams --
Mark Twain on the American character / David Foster --
Pricking the bubble of utopian sentiment: the political thought of William Graham Sumner / Lance Robinson --
Booker T. Washington and the "severe American crucible" / Peter W. Schramm --
Co-workers in the kingdom of culture: W.E.B. Du Bois's vision of race synthesis / Jonathan Marks --
Henry Adams and our ancient faith / Christopher Flannery --
Jane Addams as civic theorist: struggling to reconcile competing claims / Jean Bethke Elshtain --
Herbert Croly's progressive "liberalism" / Thomas S. Engeman --
Theodore Roosevelt and the stewardship of the American presidency / Jean M. Yarbrough --
Woodrow Wilson, the organic state, and American republicanism / Ronald J. Pestritto --
Making of the modern supreme court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis / David F. Forte --
John Dewey's alternative liberalism / David Fott --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the second bill of rights / Donald R. Brand --
Ayn Rand: radical for capitalism / William Thomas --
Walker Percy's American Thomism / Peter Augustine Lawler --
Russell Kirk's Anglo-American conservatism / James McCellan --
Two revolutions of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Peter C. Myers --
Malcolm X: from political acolyte to political preacher / Lucas E. Morel --
Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem: the popular transformation of American feminism in the late twentieth century / Natalie Taylor and Daryl McGowan Tress --
John Rawl's "democratic" theory of justice / David Lewis Schaefer --
Henry Kissinger: the challenge of statesmanship in liberal democracy / Peter Josephson --
Irving Kristol and the reinvigoration of bourgeois republicanism / Laurence D. Cooper --
Jurisprudence of William Joseph Brennan, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall / Bradley C.S. Watson --
Textualist jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia / Ralph A. Rossum.