Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-219) and index.
Contents
Preface -- Part I : Politics of history and historians -- My life as a historian ; Education of Richard Hofstadter -- Part II : Rethinking history in a changing world -- American freedom in a global age ; Russians write a new history ; We must forget the past : history in the new South Africa ; Why is there no socialism in the United States? -- Part III : Enduring civil war -- Who is an American? ; Blacks and the U.S. Constitution ; Ken Burns and the romance of reunion.
