Illustrations

Introduction

KAREN HALTTUNEN

LEWIS PERRY

PROBLEMS OF MORAL COMMUNITY

1. Original Themes of Voluntary Moralism: The Anglo-American Reformation of Manners

JOEL BERNARD

2. Gothic Mystery and the Birth of the Asylum: The Cultural Construction of Deviance in Early-Nineteenth-Century America

KAREN HALTTUNEN

3. The World's "Dirty Work" and the Wages That "Sweeten" It: Labor's "Extrinsic Rewards" in Antebellum Society

JONATHAN A. GLICKSTEIN

4. Deviance, Dominance, and the Construction of Handedness in Turn-of-the-Century Anglo-America

TAMARA PLAKINS THORNTON

RACE AND THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY

5. Black Abolitionists and the Origins of Civil Disobedience

LEWIS PERRY

6. "The Right to Possess All the Faculties That God Has Given": Possessive Individualism, Slave Women, and Abolitionist Thought

AMY DRU STANLEY

7. Worrying about the Civil War

EDWARD L. AYERS

8. Caste, Class, and Equal Citizenship

WILLIAM E. FORBATH

RELIGION AND MORAL COMMUNITY

9. Jewish Prayers for the U.S. Government: A Study in the Liturgy of Politics and the Politics of Liturgy

JONATHAN D. SARNA

10. Interfaith Families in Victorian America

ANNE C. ROSE

11. Prophetic Ministry and the Military Chaplaincy during the Vietnam Era

ANNE C. LOVELAND

REDRAWING MORAL BOUNDARIES IN MODERN AMERICA

12. Listen, My Children: Modes and Functions of Poetry Reading in American Schools, 1880-1950

JOAN SHELLEY RUBIN

13. Talking about Sex: Early-Twentieth-Century Radicals and Moral Confessions

CHRISTINE STANSELL

14. "What If History Was a Gambler?"

T.J. JACKSON LEARS

Afterword David Brion Davis: A Biographical Appreciation

RICHARD WIGHTMAN FOX

Contributors

Index