Introduction: Badly in Detail but Well on the Whole: The Second State
Prologue: The Great, Noisy, Reedy, Jarring Assembly: The Capitol, Lawyers, and Public Space
1. A Government of States: Sponsorship and the First Debate on Land Grant Colleges, 1858-1861
2. The Object of a Democratic Government: Sponsorship and Supervision of Agriculture and Land Grant Colleges, 1861-1863
3. A Government of Law: Sponsoring and Supervising the Freedmen, Abandoned Lands, and Refugees, 1863-1865
4. The Two Great Pillars of the State: The Supervision and Standardization of Education and Law Enforcement, 1865-1876
5. To Change the Nature of the Government: Standardizing Schooling and the Civil Service, 1876-1883
6. What Constitutes a State: Supervising Labor and Commerce, 1883-1886
7. A System Entirely Satisfactory to the Country: Standardizing Labor and the Courts, 1886-1891
Conclusion: To Answer Our Purposes, It Must Be Adapted
Acknowledgments
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index