1. The New Welfare Capitalism: The Failed Liberal Projects of the Post-Industrial Period • Carmen Brick, University of California, Berkeley.

2. The Democratic Slipperiness of Rule Evasion: 15 Days of Failed Hearings to Regulate a New Money-Market Product, 1966 • Pierre-Christian Fink, Harvard University.

3. “The Decision Has Been Made by the Man with All the Votes”: Lyndon Johnson and the Unexpected Campaign for the Fair Housing Act • Kumar Ramanathan, University of Illinois Chicago.

4. Partisan Consequences of the US Civil War in the Post-Reconstruction Period • Sven E. Wilson, Brigham Young University; Doug Atkinson, Brigham Young University.