. “Did the Civil War Further Democracy? A Reflection on the Expansion of Benefits for Union Veterans”. In: Democracy, Revolution, and History. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press; 1998. p. 73-101.
Scholarly Articles and Chapters
. “Advocates without Members: The Recent Transformation of American Civic Life”. In: Civic Engagement in American Democracy. Brookings Institution Press; 1999. p. 461-509.
. “How Americans Became Civic”. In: Civic Engagement in American Democracy. Brookings Institution Press; 1999. p. 27-80.
. “Making Sense of the Civic Engagement Debate”. In: Civic Engagement in American Democracy. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution Press and the Russell Sage Foundation; 1999. p. 1-23.
. “From Beginning to End: Has Twentieth-Century U.S. Social Policy Come Full Circle?” . In: Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press; 1999. p. 259-79.
. “Why I am a Historical Social Scientist”. Extensions: Journal of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center. 1999:16-19.
. “A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States”. American Political Science Review. 2000;94(3):527-46.
. “Religion, Civil Society, and Social Provision in the U.S.”. In: Who Will Provide? The Changing Role of Religion in American Social Welfare. Boulder, CO: Westview Press; 2000. p. 21-50.
. “Theory Tackles History”. Social Science History. 2000;24(4):666-70.
. “The Rush to Organize: Explaining Associational Formation in the United States, 1860s-1920s”. American Journal of Political Science. 2001;45(4):813-29.
. “Speaking for Families and Children in a Changing Civic America”. In: Who Speaks for America’s Children: The Role of Child Advocates in Public Policy . Washington D.C.: Urban Institute Press; 2001.
. “Patriotic Partnerships: Why Great Wars Nourished American Civic Voluntarism”. In: Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; 2002. p. 134-80.
. “Will 9/11 and the War on Terror Revitalize American Civic Democracy?”. PS: Political Science & Politics. 2002;35(3):537-40.
. “What It Will Take to Build a Family-Friendly America”. In: Taking Parenting Public: The Case for a New Social Movement. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield; 2002. p. 219-33.
. “United States: From Membership to Advocacy”. In: Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society. New York: Oxford University Press; 2002. p. 103-36.
