Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Melvyn Stokes -- Writing the history of the American Revolution / Simon P. Newman -- Reshaping society : American social history from revolution to reconstruction / Christopher Clark -- Rediscovering Jacksonian America / Daniel Feller -- The evangelical surge and the significance of religion in the early United States, 1783-1865 / Mark A. Noll -- The New Deal in American scholarship / Alan Brinkley -- Beyond the "age of McCarthy": anticommunism and the historians / Michael J. Heale -- Segregation and civil rights : African American freedom strategies in the twentieth century / Adam Fairclough -- Industrial history : the state of the art / Howell John Harris -- Intellectual history, democracy, and the culture of irony / James T. Kloppenberg -- Women's history and gender / S. Jay Kleinberg -- Print and the public sphere in early America / Robert A. Gross -- The rise of film history / Melvyn Stokes -- The American West : from exceptionalism to internationalism / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Orpheus turning : the present state of southern history / Michael O'Brien -- Class and the construction of "race" : White racism in the antebellum south / Michael Tadman -- Imagining Indians : differing perspectives on Native American history / Joy Porter -- Class in American history : issues and a case study / John Ashworth -- Conflict by consent : popular commitment, community participation, and the war for the Union / Peter J. Parish -- By way of Dubois : the question of Black initiative in the Civil War and Reconstruction / David Turley.