1. The eighteenth-century setting.
2. A variety of riots: food, customs, antielite, and Pope Day riots.
3. The Impressment Riot of 1747.
4. Antebellum Boston: norm enforcement, race, and abolition riots.
5. Anti-catholic rioting in antebellum Boston: the Ursuline convent and the Broad Street riots.
6. Anti-catholic tensions, 1850-1900, and the Draft Riot of 1863.
7. The 1919 Police Strike riots. -8. Ghetto riots, 1967-1968.
9. Antibusing riots, fall 1974.
10. Antibusing riots, 1975-1976.