The American revolution seen from the bottom up / Jesse Lemisch -- Beyond Beard / Staughton Lynd -- The Jacksonians: paradox lost? / Michael A. Lebowitz -- Marxian interpretations of the slave south / Eugene D. Genovese -- Antislavery legacy: from reconstruction to the NAACP / James M. McPherson -- Urbanization, migration and social mobility in late nineteenth-century America / Stephan Thernstrom -- American expansion 1870-1900: the far east / Marilyn Blatt Young -- American foreign policy 1900-1921: a second look at the realist critique of American diplomacy / Lloyd C. Gardner -- American foreign relations 1920-1942 / Robert Freeman Smith -- The new deal: the conservative achievements of liberal reform / Barton J. Bernstein -- America in war and peace: the test of liberalism / Barton J. Bernstein -- The cultural cold war: a short history of the congress for cultural freedom / Christopher Lasch.