Seduced, abandoned, and reborn: visions of youth in middle-class America, 1780-1850

"Victims at the shrine of Libertinism": gender in the seduction tales of the late eighteenth century

Victim of seduction or vicious women? Conceptions of the prostitute at the Philadelphia Magdaden Society and beyond

"The most powerful instrument of college discipline": the University of Pennsylvania and the Advent of meritocracy in the early republic

Harvesting youth: the competition for souls in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia and beyond

"The young man's friend": advice manuals and the dangerous journey to self-made manhood

Private libertines: emergent strategies for the control of male youth in Bourgeois America.