Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a New Historical Society Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	The Imperative: The Historical Society as a Critique and a New Ideal	1
1	A New Departure	6
2	The Past under Siege: A Historian Ponders the State of His Profession - and What to Do about It	9
3	The Future of History in an Increasingly Unified World	12
4	Politics and Multiculturalism	18
5	Democracy in the Ivory Tower? Toward the Restoration of an Intellectual Community	23
Pt. II	History and the Contemporary Intellectual Milieu	35
6	History in a Postmodern World	40
7	On the Obsolescence of "Puritanism" as an Epithet	56
8	Postmodernist History	71
9	A New Intellectual History?	94
10	Henry Louis Gates, Sterling Brown, and the Professional Languages of African American Literary Criticism	119
Pt. III	Meditations on the Practice of History	139
11	Confessions of an Accidental (or Perhaps Overdetermined) Historian	143
12	Living in the Scottish Record Office	164
13	Writing the History of Practice: The Humanities and Baseball, with a Nod to Wrestling	176
14	The Dilemmas of the Contemporary Military Historian	189
15	Aristotle and the Study of History: A Manifesto	202
16	What Is a Liberal Education?	214
17	The Death of Jane Addams	226
Pt. IV	An Educational Mission: Standards for the Teaching of History	237
18	The Controversy over National History Standards	242
19	The National History Standards	253
20	Clio Banished? Battles over History in the Schools	276
21	Whose History? Whose Standards?	282
Pt. V	Historians at Work	299
22	Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America: The Formative Era, 1890-1916	304
23	Center and Periphery in the History of Science	322
24	Work in the Moctezuma Brewery	347
25	Faulkner's South: Is There Truth in Fiction?	361
	Contributors	371
	Permissions	375