Introduction: the paradoxical legacy of the federalists / Doron Ben-Atar and Barbara B. Oberg -- Constructing American national identity: strategies of the federalists / Rogers M. Smith -- Alexander Hamilton's alternative: technology piracy and the report on manufactures / Doron Ben-Atar -- Hamilton's second thoughts: federalist finance revisited / Herbert E. Sloan -- Radicals in the "western world": the federalist conquest of trans-Appalachian North America -- Andrew R.L. Cayton -- Federalism, the styles of politics, and the politics of style / David Waldstreicher -- Gender and the first party system / Rosemarie Zagarri -- The problem of slavery in the age of federalism / Paul Finkelman -- Ministers, misanthropes, and mandarins: the federalists and the culture of capitalism, 1790-1820 / Steven Watts -- Benjamin Franklin as weird sister: William Cobbett and federalist Philadelphia's fears of democracy / Keith Arbour -- "Steady habits" under siege: the defense of federalism in Jeffersonian Connecticut / Andrew Siegel -- From fathers to friends of the people: political personae in the early republic / Alan Taylor -- Afterword: the federalists--still in need of reconsideration / James M. Banner, Jr..