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“Joining Together in Tocqueville’s America”
Kevin Butterfield discusses his book, "The Making of Tocqueville's America: Law and Association in the Early United States." This event supports the new Library of Congress "Join In: Voluntary Associations in America" exhibition.
Publications
The official illustrated companion to the exhibition is available for sale in the Library of Congress store External.
Read More About It
- Bilder, Mary Sarah. “English Settlement and Local Governance.” In The Cambridge History of Law in America, ed. Michael Grossberg and Christopher Tomlins, vol. 1: Early America (1580-1815), 63-103. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Butterfield, Kevin. The Making of Tocqueville’s America: Law and Association in the Early United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Gamm, Gerald, and Robert D. Putnam. “The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840-1940.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29, no. 4 (Spring 1999): 511-57.
- Neem, Johann N. Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Osgood, Herbert L. American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Mcmillian Company, 1904-1907.
- Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
- Putnam, Robert D. and Shaylyn Romney Garrett. The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020.
- Schlesinger, Arthur M. “Biography of a Nation of Joiners,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 50, No. 1 (October 1944). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1944.
- Skocpol, Theda. Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.
- Roney, Jessica Chopin. Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
- Scott, Ann Firor. Natural Allies: Women’s Associations in American History. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Translated by Harvey C. Manfield and Delba Winthrop. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
For Younger Readers
- Corey, Shana. Here Come the Girl Scouts!:The Amazing All-True Story of Juliette ‘Daisy’ Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure. New York: Scholastic Press, 2012.
- Kallen, Stuart A. Teen Guide to Volunteering. San Diego: Reference Point Press, 2020.
- Teckentrup, Britta. We Are Together. Wilton, Connecticut: Tiger Tales, 2022.