1. Contentious Institutions and Party Orders: Placing US Political Parties in Space and Time • Jessica Hejny, Middle Tennessee State University; Adam Hilton, Mount Holyoke College.

2. Power in Narrative and Narratives of Power in Historical Sociology • Hazem Kandil, University of Cambridge.

3. Consumer Organizations – a Social Movement or Public Interest Groups? And Who, Exactly, Is the Public? • Yaniv Ron-El, University of Chicago.

4. The 'New Political History' and Narratives of Democratic Progress in Antebellum America • Jeffrey Selinger, Bowdoin College.