The early American state "in action": The federal Marine hospitals, 1789-1860 -- Beyond tocqueville's myth: Rethinking the model of the American state -- Inventing the US-Mexico border -- Rumors of empire: Tracking the image of Britain at the dawn of the American century -- The great transformation: The state and the market in the postwar world -- Governing the child: The state, the family, and the compulsory school in the early twentieth century -- Youth as infrastructure: 4-H and the intimate state in 1920s rural America -- Good citizens of a world power: Postwar reconfigurations of the obligation to give -- The rise of the public religious welfare state: Black religion and the negotiation of church/state boundaries during the war on poverty -- Private power and American bureaucracy: The state, the EEOC, and civil rights enforcement -- From political economy to civil society: Arthur W. Page, corporate philanthropy, and the reframing of the past in post-New Deal America

1. Federal government -- United States -- History
2. United States -- Politics and government