1. State Formation in the Massachusetts Bay Colony: The Participatory Foundations of Church and Civil Government • Can Mert Kökerer, The University of Chicago.

2. Capitalism, Debt Imprisonment, and the Early American State • James Parisot, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.

3. Citibank and the Gray Panthers: How the Consumer Movement Allied with Wall Street for Financial Deregulation • Conrad Jacober, Johns Hopkins University.