Articles include:

• "Under These Classic Shades Together": Intimate Male Friendships at the Antebellum College of New Jersey by Thomas J. Balcerski
• Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Militia Law: The Statute that Transformed the State by Francis S. Fox
• "Long in the Hand and Altogether Fruitless": The Pennsylvania Salt Works and Salt-Making on the New Jersey Shore during the American Revolution by Michael S. Adelberg
• "A Genuine Republican": Benjamin Franklin Bache's Remarks (1797), the Federalists, and Republican Civic Humanism by Arthur Scherr

Also includes: Obituaries, Book Reviews, Film Review, and Contributors