includes bibliographical references (p. 154) and index.
Contents
The critical historian / George Kitson Clark -- The science of history / J.B. Bury -- What are historical facts? / Carl L. Becker -- The historian and the computer / Stephan Thernstrom -- The historian and his day / J.H. Hexter -- The historian and history / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- Historical past and existencial present / Staughton Lynd -- The advancing power of the state / Halvdan Koht -- Structural causes of revolutions / Jacques Godechot -- The impact of total war / Gordon Wright -- The hero in history / Sidney Hook -- Listening to the "inarticulate" / Jesse Lemisch -- Racism and imperialism / Richard Hofstadter.